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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 called it “affecting viewing, with a sense of discovery”.
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A 1927 painting by Edith Collier, of Maketu Pa in Kawhia.
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Edith with bicycle, circa 1898
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An image from Edith Collier: Landscape near Wakarua, where Edith painted.
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A painting by Edith Collier, circa 1927: Te Korero, Kawhia.
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The Whanganui River - an image from the film.
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"A Sleeping Girl" - painting by Edith Collier.
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