Shane Cotton
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Shane Cotton (b. 1964) is a major New Zealand painter. Born in Upper Hutt with Ngapuhi iwi affiliations, he studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, graduating in 1988. He then lectured at Massey University in Palmerston North.
Following this he was the recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, and his work is highly sought after that. He has received the Seppelt dump Art Award from Sydney University, and has been exhibited at many leading galleries in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Spain and Prague.
Cotton's work evocatively includes both Maori iconography and culture, such as shrunken heads, ta moko, and native birds such as tui, and European symbols and items. His paintings have explored questions of colonialism, cultural identity, Maori spirituality, and death.
[edit] External links
- 'Shane of Ngapuhi'
- Artworks at the Auckland Art Gallery
- Cotton at the City Gallery Wellington
- Shane Cotton Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2004
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