Jolene Douglas


Jolene Douglas is a contemporary New Zealand Māori artist who has been exhibiting since 1983. Two of her art works are in the collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is currently living in Gisborne and been a curator Tairawhiti Museum since 1995. Douglas was born in 1950 in Matamata, New Zealand.
Douglas's art work is primarily in pastels and is described as self-reflective. The republished cover of the classic New Zealand novel by Witi Ihimaera, The Matriarch, features one of Douglas's artworks.
Douglas is part of the Māori women's collective Kauae.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Ocean, Artists Nick Tupara and Jolene Douglas, Tairawhiti Museum, Stout St, Gisborne
Sisters / Yakkannana / Kahui Mareikura Kauae and the Tandanya Collective, Adelaide Festival, Australia
Ngā Wāhine Whitu o Tairawhiti , Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland

Books

Jolene Douglas's art work has been published in the following books:
Kauwae 09 : a series of three exhibitions from the Kauwae Group, a national collective of Māori women artists,. Te Matapuna Trust. Kauwae Group, issuing body; Tairawhiti Museum, host institution; Nathan Homestead, host institution; Mangere Arts Centre-Ngā Tohu o Uenuku. Ed. Libby Hakaraia & Colleen Waata Urlich. Penguin Group
Taiāwhio.'' Ed. Huhana Smith. Te Papa Press

See More

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/6039