Bridie LonieBridie Lonie

Bridie Lonie has a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Otago. She is currently the Head of School at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic.

On queer pleasure: conversations between Imogen Taylor and Frances Hodgkins

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Sumptuous exhibition Sapphic Fragments at the Hocken Gallery, Dunedin is the result of painter Imogen Taylor’s year as Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, bringing her work on canvas and walls into conversation with Hodgkins, Sappho and other women artists to explore pleasure in abstraction. It reminds us, writes Bridie Lonie, that today’s … Read more