Alison Duff

Alison Stirling Duff (married name Salter, 7 July 1914 – 19 March 2000) was a New Zealand sculptor, potter and teacher.[1][2]

Alison Salter
Born
Alison Duff

(1914-07-07)7 July 1914
Invercargill, New Zealand
Died19 March 2000(2000-03-19) (aged 85)
Auckland, New Zealand
EducationUniversity of Canterbury School of Art. East Sydney Technical College (Sculpture), 1938.
Known forSculpture, pottery, teaching

Family

Born in Invercargill in 1914, she was the daughter of Oliver Duff, writer and foundation editor of the New Zealand Listener, and his wife Jessie Barclay, and the aunt of New Zealand novelist Alan Duff.[3]

Education

Duff studied at the University of Canterbury School of Art under Francis Shurrock.[4] She went on to study sculpture at East Sydney Technical College, graduating in 1938.[4] Duff returned briefly to New Zealand after graduating, and three of her sculptures were included in the 1939-40 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.[5][6]

Teaching career

Duff taught in Hobart for seven years as the head of the Sculpture Department at Hobart Technical College before moving to Sydney, where she taught at Sydney Technical College for a further five.[4] Returning to New Zealand, she became a teacher at Auckland Girls' Grammar School.[4]

Career

By the mid 1950s Duff was working full-time on her sculpture.[6] Among her characteristic works from this time are portrait busts such as Sir Edmund Hillary (1959) in the Auckland Art Gallery collection.[7]:168 Art historian Anne Kirker writes 'This work is made from cement, a medium that enhances the rugged and tough demeanour of the eminent New Zealander.'[7]

Duff's work was regularly featured in the Auckland City Art Gallery's survey exhibitions of current artistic practice in the 1960s. She was included in Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Sculpture (1960), Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Sculpture (1962), Recent New Zealand Sculpture (1966) and Recent New Zealand Sculpture (1968) at the Gallery.[8][9][10][11] A major exhibition of her work from 1944 onwards was held at the New Vision Gallery in 1970.[6]

Collections

Her work is held in the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.[12][13]

Death

She died in Auckland in 2000.

References
  1. Blumhardt, Helen (1976). New Zealand Potters: their work and words. Auckland: A.H. & A.W. Reed. ISBN 0589009532. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. "Duff, Alison". Find New Zealand Artists. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. McEldowney, Dennis (7 June 2013). "Duff, Oliver". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  4. Cape, Peter (1969). Artists and Craftsmen in New Zealand. Auckland, London: Collins. pp. 103–107.
  5. "New Zealand art: a centennial exhibition". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  6. Kirker, Anne (1993). New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years (2nd ed.). Tortola, B.V.I.: Craftsman House. p. 157. ISBN 9768097302.
  7. Kirker, Anne (1986). New Zealand women artists. Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 168. ISBN 0474001814.
  8. Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Sculpture (PDF). Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery. 1960. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  9. Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Sculpture (PDF). Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery. 1960.
  10. Recent New Zealand Sculpture (PDF). Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery. 1966. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  11. Recent New Zealand Sculpture (PDF). Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery. 1968.
  12. "Alison Duff". Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  13. "Alison Duff". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 17 October 2016.


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