Diane Prince (artist)

Diane Prince (born 1952) is a painter, weaver, installation art practitioner and set designer and affiliates to the Maori iwi Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Whātua from the north of New Zealand.

Diane Prince
Born1952
Wellington, New Zealand
Known forContemporary Māori art

Biography

Prince was born in Wellington in 1952. She obtained tertiary education from Wellington Teachers College and Auckland University.[1] In the 1970s Prince was part of the Bastion Point protests including as a researcher, the protests and occupation resulted in the New Zealand Government returning the land to Ngāti Whātua in the 1980s.[1][2]

Prince has been exhibiting artwork since 1986 nationally and internationally, much of her art revolves around Māori rights especially Māori women's rights. She is often described as a multimedia artist as she creates installations, she weaves and she paints.[3][4][5][1] Prince and artist Shona Rapira Davies are long time collaborators.[6][7] In 1995 an installation artwork of Prince's bringing attention to New Zealand identity raised controversy leading to protests and the eventual removal of the artwork.[8][9]

A solo exhibition of Prince's at the City Gallery in Wellington in 2001 is called Veiled Legacy. It was about the loss of legal status Māori women experienced once laws from Britain were imposed after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The curator said of the work: 'Veiled Legacy are images of loss and alienation, but the paintings also speak of Māori women's ongoing strength and resilience'.[10]

A number of Prince's works are in the collections at Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand.[11]

Works and exhibitions

Nga Toi o te Iwi - Nga Hua o te Iwi (1988), National Library of New Zealand, group exhibition

Diane Prince and Emare Karaka (1989), McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch Art Gallery[4]

Choice! Artspace, Auckland, group exhibition

Korurangi: New Māori Art (1995), Auckland Art Gallery, group exhibition

Purapurawhetu, (1997) by Briar Grace-Smith, Downstage Theatre (and touring), set designer Diane Prince and Mark McEntyre[12]

Women Far Walking (2000) by Witi Ihimarea, New Zealand Festival, set and costume designers Diane Prince and Mark McEntyre[13]

Harururu Mai (2000) by Briar Grace-Smith, New Zealand Festival, set and costume designers Diane Prince and Mark McEntyre[13]

Veiled Legacy (23 February - 25 March 2001), Wellington City Art Gallery, paintings by Diane Prince

Te Aro Park - mural on public building (2011), Wellington

Poi Poi Poi, Works by Gabrielle Belz, Diane Prince and Shona Rapira Davies (19 June - 20 July 2014), Bottle Creek Gallery, Pataka, Porirua[14]

Maori Art Today exhibition which accompanied Te Maori

Mana Tiriti, Wellington City Art Gallery, group exhibition[10]

1981 by John Broughton, Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North, set designer Diane Prince[13]

Commissioned woven waka, Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Island Bay, Wellington

References
  1. "Artists Catalogue". Bowen Galleries. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. "Bastion Point protesters evicted". New Zealand History. Manatū Taonga, Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. "Diane Prince - Discover - STQRY". STQRY. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  4. "Diane Prince and Emare Karaka". Christchurch Art Gallery. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  5. "Diane Prince". Kura Gallery: Maori and New Zealand Art + Design. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  6. "Native Bird Productions". Te Tuhi Art. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  7. "New mural to be painted on Te Aro Park toilets, and park seats to be changed". Scoop. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  8. Dunn, Michael (2002). New Zealand sculpture : a history. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press. p. 146. ISBN 1-86940-277-4. OCLC 51037059.
  9. Hanfling, Edward (2016). "Artist, Activist, Affect Alien: Diane Prince and the Flag Controversy". Art NZ. 159: 66–70.
  10. "Veiled Legacy - Diane Prince | City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi". 12 May 2010. Archived from the original on 12 May 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  11. "Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  12. Smythe, John (2004). Downstage upfront : the first 40 years of New Zealand's longest-running professional theatre. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press. ISBN 0-86473-489-1. OCLC 60386677.
  13. "New Zealand International Arts Festival : Records". National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  14. "Poi Poi Poi". Pataka. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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