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Michael Smither

Michael Smither (Born 1939) is active/lives in New Zealand.  Michael Smither is known for Painting.

In Dunedin in 1970, Michael Smither took up the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, established in 1966 by noted scholars Charles Brasch and his cousins Mary, Dora and Esmond de Beer.  During this tenure, Smither kept a studio in Castle Street alongside Ralph Hotere and a young Jeffrey Harris.

This oil on board piece contrasts cubist-influenced curved lines and subtle tonal graduations with the sharp angular shape of the canvas.  The cross shaped canvas board echoes Smither’s Catholic upbringing and the same shape would be replicated again in subsequent works in 1970, which were tributes to the recently deceased Rita Angus, who had a strong influence on Smither.

Smither wrote, “I decided to take the Otago landscape as Rita Angus and I [sic] both enjoyed and introduce it into the cruciform shape as a memorial to her. I made many drawings and at an early stage decided to extend the idea into a series of 12, relating to the Catholic tradi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1061 characters.]  Artist bio

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