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This documentary looks at the life of neglected painter Edith Collier. Whanganui-bred Collier left for London in her late 20s to study art; her painting flourished, experimenting with modernism alongside fellow expat Frances Hodgkins. She returned home after World War I to family duty, and ridicule for her art (her disgusted father set fire to her nudes). Interviews with her biographer and family, and shots of her work, make for a poignant biography of a (curtailed) artistic life. Listener reviewer Helene Wong: “affecting viewing, with a sense of discovery”.
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KBCRE Productions
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Television, 2004 (Excerpts)
Another modernist painter who depicted NZ landscapes
Television, 1987 (Full Length)
Documentary about a less celebrated painter
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Marian
Posted at 05.26PM - 06.07.2011
Dame Janet Paul worked hard to bring Edith Collier's work into the national consciousness. As a result, Edith Collier was not neglected by NZ's women's art movement in the 1980s. I remember helping curate a show of her work. And it's lovely to be reminded that this film, on this site, ensures that she's now unlikely to be neglected again.