Margaret Mary Brownsey
Date of birth
12 Aug 1938
Place of birth
Nationality
Biography
Margaret Mary Brownsey QSM
8th August 1938
Place of birth: Auckland
I was resident in Titirangi, Auckland attending St Mary’s College and Marist College, Mt Albert until my marriage to Roger Brownsey in 1961 when we set up home and a pharmacy business in Tokoroa and have lived there since.
I trained as a pharmacist and practiced in a part-time capacity in Tokoroa and Putaruru until retirement in 2005.
When we sold our business in 1995 I served the community as a District Councillor for the following 12 years.
I have always been involved in the art community as an administrator in various societies; notably the Tokoroa ( latterly South Waikato ) Camera Club, South Waikato Music Society and South Waikato Arts Trust. In 2007, in recognition of the volunteer work in addition to my District Council Service, I was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal.
I shared my husband’s interest in photography, attending the Photographic Society of New Zealand’s annual national conventions, all the time absorbing ideas, techniques and philosophies of national and international photographers of repute.
Membership of the national society gave me an opportunity to exhibit my work along with others in the national salons.
Roger was the chair of a group based in Taupo who organized annual winter workshops with international guest presenters and these workshops were pivotal in crystallizing my desire to photograph from nature showing designs and patterns.
My original photography was in the field of colour transparencies, using aNikon camera body and lenses but since the advent of digital photography have photographed using a Panasonic Lumix FX 50 which I find gives me all the control and detail I need for creating the print quality I require. With the computer darkroom always available to print I have really enjoyed creating the final print to hang.
In recent years, my prints have hung in the Biennial South Waikato Camera Club exhibitions in conjunction with the District Council Artsfests, The Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, Taupo Museum and Art in the Garden in Tirau each New year.
text courtesy of Margaret Brownsey in an email to Leafa Wilson 1/10/12
8th August 1938
Place of birth: Auckland
I was resident in Titirangi, Auckland attending St Mary’s College and Marist College, Mt Albert until my marriage to Roger Brownsey in 1961 when we set up home and a pharmacy business in Tokoroa and have lived there since.
I trained as a pharmacist and practiced in a part-time capacity in Tokoroa and Putaruru until retirement in 2005.
When we sold our business in 1995 I served the community as a District Councillor for the following 12 years.
I have always been involved in the art community as an administrator in various societies; notably the Tokoroa ( latterly South Waikato ) Camera Club, South Waikato Music Society and South Waikato Arts Trust. In 2007, in recognition of the volunteer work in addition to my District Council Service, I was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal.
I shared my husband’s interest in photography, attending the Photographic Society of New Zealand’s annual national conventions, all the time absorbing ideas, techniques and philosophies of national and international photographers of repute.
Membership of the national society gave me an opportunity to exhibit my work along with others in the national salons.
Roger was the chair of a group based in Taupo who organized annual winter workshops with international guest presenters and these workshops were pivotal in crystallizing my desire to photograph from nature showing designs and patterns.
My original photography was in the field of colour transparencies, using aNikon camera body and lenses but since the advent of digital photography have photographed using a Panasonic Lumix FX 50 which I find gives me all the control and detail I need for creating the print quality I require. With the computer darkroom always available to print I have really enjoyed creating the final print to hang.
In recent years, my prints have hung in the Biennial South Waikato Camera Club exhibitions in conjunction with the District Council Artsfests, The Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, Taupo Museum and Art in the Garden in Tirau each New year.
text courtesy of Margaret Brownsey in an email to Leafa Wilson 1/10/12