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. Her work is in the collections of the Auckland [Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki] and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Douglas is a founding member of the Māori women's collective Kauwae.
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Ocean, Artists Nick Tupara and Jolene Douglas, Tairawhiti Museum, Stout St, GisborneSisters / 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
Te Kahui O Matariki : Contemporary Maori Art of Matariki. Ed. Libby Hakaraia & Colleen Waata Urlich. Penguin Group
Taiāwhio. Ed. Huhana Smith. Te Papa Press