AUDIO
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge
- Date
- 16, 17 September 2003 - 16 Sep 420 - 17 Sep 2004
- By
- Muggeridge, Marianne, 1952-
- Reference
- OHInt-0769-06
- Description
Born in Hamilton, 1952. Discusses family background - talks of grandfather's work as an entomologist at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson. Discusses immediate family - mother a speech therapist, father qualified as a lawyer, became sharemilker on grandparents' farm. Describes parents as very liberal for the time. Recalls childhood in Alton, Taranaki, talks about family moving to Opunake when Marianne was 11 - recalls this as a happy time. Discusses later move to New Plymouth - recalls time spent at Spotswood College, learning to surf, and suffering from bulimia.
Talks about attending Elam Art School - discusses assignments and the influence that tutor "Mac" MacLaren had on her work. Mentions Phil Judd and Jill Winter. Discusses her bulimia and drug use during the seventies - recalls decision to go overseas in 1974. Describes travelling to Paris and living in Wales and London. Mentions commissioned work she produced for New Zealand actor Deidre Serensen. Mentions being first artist to have a Solo Show at N Z House, the Haymarket, London 1979.
Describes returning to New Zealand and moving back to Auckland, then the Wilderlands commune in the Coromandel, before settling in Kapuni, Taranaki. Mentions meeting her partner and fellow artist Roger Morris and becoming pregnant with her daughters Lucy and Myfanny. Discusses finding current home in Wellington. Discusses being a member of the Taranaki Artists Co-Operative (TACO) - describes her portraiture style and teaching life drawing at community evening classes. Talks of winning the painting section of the annual National Portrait Gallery's National Portrait Competition, and the Adam/New Zealand Portrait Competition.
Mentions Dick Frizzel, Don Binney, Dale Copeland, Paul Hutchinson, Pam Walker, Tom Mutch, Raewyn Mutch, Peter Lambert and Rene Lambert
Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian
Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald
Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from newspapers; copies of works from www.virtual.tart.co.nz
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014382, OHC-014383, OHC-014384, OHC-014384, OHC-014386, OHC014387
Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.39 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5152.
2 colour photographs, 10 x 15 cm, both taken in Marianne Muggeridge's Wellington studio, 2002. 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her work 'Middle Wellington' (2001), 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her works 'Middle Wellington' (2001) and a portrait study; copies of works from www.virtual.tart.co.nz
Search dates: 1952 - 2004
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Publication and electronic publication on the internet requires the written permission of the copyright holder, to be reviewed 2020 Copyright: Copyright held by Marianne Muggeridge
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Art Taranaki oral history project
- Format
- 6 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 5.39 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: 2 colour photographs, 10 x 15 cm, both taken in Marianne Muggeridge's Wellington studio, 2002. 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her work 'Middle Wellington' (2001), 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her works 'Middle Wellington' (2001) and a portrait study; copies of works from www.virtual.tart.co.nz
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Copyright
All Rights ReservedInterview with Marianne Muggeridge, printed abstract
Date: 16, 17 September 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHA-5152
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape three
Date: 16 September 2003 - 16 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014384
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape two
Date: 16 September 2003 - 16 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014383
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 0f 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape one
Date: September 16 2003 - 16 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014382
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape four
Date: 17 September 2003 - 17 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014385
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape five
Date: 17 September 2003 - 17 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014386
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 5 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, tape six
Date: 17 September 2003 - 17 Sep 2003
From: Art Taranaki oral history project
Reference: OHC-014387
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 6 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).