Ann Verdcourt
Date of birth
1934
Place of birth
Biography
Ann Verdcourt is a New Zealand artist. She creates object art with clay.
Verdcourt was born in Bedfordshire, England, and immigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 1965. Verdcourt has been working with clay since the 1950s. Her work references many other artists and art movements, drawing from her extensive knowledge of art history. In her work one can find allusions to anything from Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Constantin Brâncuși to the famous earthenware depiction of the Venus of Willendorf.
In 1992 she was commissioned to produce work for the Treasures of the Underworld exhibition that formed part of the New Zealand Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92. She said of her work My brief was to make something about Columbus, something that would appeal to a wide range of people and be understood without the use of words. After much hesitation and after reading a great many books, I decided the only way I could tackle the subject was by treating it as an unfolding story of the "first Voyage".[1]
Verdcourt has work in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland; Te Manawa, Palmerston North; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; the James Wallace Collection, Auckland; Hawke's Bay Museum, Napier; and the Dowse, Lower Hutt.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Verdcourt
Verdcourt was born in Bedfordshire, England, and immigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 1965. Verdcourt has been working with clay since the 1950s. Her work references many other artists and art movements, drawing from her extensive knowledge of art history. In her work one can find allusions to anything from Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Constantin Brâncuși to the famous earthenware depiction of the Venus of Willendorf.
In 1992 she was commissioned to produce work for the Treasures of the Underworld exhibition that formed part of the New Zealand Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92. She said of her work My brief was to make something about Columbus, something that would appeal to a wide range of people and be understood without the use of words. After much hesitation and after reading a great many books, I decided the only way I could tackle the subject was by treating it as an unfolding story of the "first Voyage".[1]
Verdcourt has work in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland; Te Manawa, Palmerston North; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; the James Wallace Collection, Auckland; Hawke's Bay Museum, Napier; and the Dowse, Lower Hutt.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Verdcourt
