Joanna Braithwaite

New Zealand artist

Joanna Braithwaite (born 1962) is a New Zealand painter. Braithwaite has been interested in exploring exchanges between people and animals since studying at the School of Fine Arts, in Canterbury in the mid-1980s.[1] She has said her work has always tended toward the autobiographical, so what is happening in her environment creeps into the work.[2]

## Life

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Braithwaite was born in Halifax, England, in 1962 and immigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1965.[3] She grew up in the township of Pleasant Point in rural south Canterbury. Since the mid-1990s, when Braithwaite spent two years living in Melbourne, she has exhibited regularly in Australia as well as New Zealand. She returned to Australia in 1999 and continue to live and work in Sydney.[4]

## Art

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Braithwaite has been described as a "realist, though of an edgy an sceptical sort. Braithwaite's eloquently phrased paintings occupy that point where the traditions of animal painting and Vanitas painting intersect."[5] A painting of a slaughtered sheep's head she exhibited in 1991 epitomised New Zealand: "our farming and agricultural history, the idea of imperialism, the Christian symbolism of it and the distaste so many have for the display of powerful and raw emotion."[6]

Braithwaite's work has seven times been a finalist in the Sulman Prize and four times in the Archibald Prize, in 2018 with her portrait of businessman, art collector and philanthropist Pat Corrigan[7] and most recently in 2022 with McManusstan, her portrait of trade union leader Sally McManus.[8]

## Education, awards and residencies

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Braithwaite is a graduate of the Canterbury School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, where she received a BFA in 1985, and of the College of Fine Arts Sydney, where she received an MFA in 2000.[4]

* 2019 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize[9]
* 1998 Art Excellence Award from the Christchurch Community Trust
* 1997 and 1998 Merit Awards in the Visa Gold Art Awards
* 1991 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award, New Zealand
* 1990 Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award, New Zealand
* 1986 Major Project Award, QEII Arts Council
* 1983 Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship (University of Canterbury)
* 1983 Sawtell Turner Painting Prize (University of Canterbury)

## References

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1. ^ Beaven, Lisa (Spring 2002). "Taking Flight: The Airborne and Hybrid Images of Joanna Braithwaite". Art New Zealand. 102.
2. ^ Dunbar, Anna (8 December 1999). "Art that soars". The Press.
3. ^ Vanitas: Aspects of the Contemporary Still Life. Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch City Council. 1992. p. 2.
4. ^ a b Paton, Justin; Milburn, Milburn (2005). Wonderland: Joanna Braithwaite. Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. ISBN 0-908910-43-6.
5. ^ Paton, Justin (7 July 1993). "Women's paintings, sculpture". Christchurch Press.
6. ^ Peoples, John Daly (12 April 1991). "Provincial Professionals". NBR Weekly Magazine: 32.
7. ^ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2018 finalist: Hall of fame – portrait of Pat Corrigan by Joanna Braithwaite". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
8. ^ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2022 work: McManusstan by Joanna Braithwaite". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
9. ^ "Past Prizes - 2019". Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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Olivia Spencer Bower Award recipients

* 1987 Pauline Rhodes
* 1988 Grant Banbury
* 1989 Linda James
* 1990 Joanna Braithwaite
* 1991 No award
* 1992 Ruth Watson
* 1993 Sandra Thomson
* 1994 Séraphine Pick
* 1995 Chris Heaphy
* 1996 Esther Leigh
* 1997 Saskia Leek
* 1998 Jim Speers
* 1999 Kirsty Gregg
* 2000 James Cousins
* 2001 Kirsty Gorman
* 2002 Marcus Moore
* 2003 Bekah Carran
* 2004 Hannah Beehre
* 2005 Victoria Bell
* 2006 Joanna Langford
* 2007 Robert Hood
* 2008 Eddie Clemens
* 2009 Clare Noonan
* 2010 Cat Auburn
* 2011 Georgina E. Hill
* 2012 Laura Marsh
* 2013 Miranda Parkes
* 2014 Emma Fitts
* 2015 Jacquelyn Greenbank
* 2016 Christina Read
* 2017 Daegan Wells
* 2018 Tyne Gordon
* 2019 Kim Lowe
* 2020 Annie McKenzie
* 2022 Amanda Newall

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