Congratulations Lori Pittard, Gary Tricker Scholarship recipient 2024
/PCANZ is thrilled to award the Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship 2024 to Lori Pittard.
The award is valued at $800 and includes attendance at the 2024 Summer School and membership of PCANZ for 2024. Lori has chosen to attend 2 x 2-day workshops - Anna Layzell’s Monoprinting with oil and cold wax medium and Jude Gordon’s Silk Mezzotint at Queen Margaret College in Wellington from 8 - 12 January.
Welcome Lori!
“I’m thrilled to be at Summer School and it’s a huge honour to be the recipient of the Gary Tricker scholarship.
Greytown was one of the first places I visited when I came to NZ from Canada in 1994. I was staying at my mother-in-law’s home in Featherston which meant we popped over to Greytown. I’ve been there in recent years and it’s really incredible to see how it’s grown. If Gary had a studio/residence in Greytown on the Main Street, then I actually met him. Wouldn’t that be a coincidence.
I’m attaching my woodcut print that I completed for my first year at Te Wanaga O Aotearoa in Tauranga. It’s called Veiled Metamorphosis: Taurikura's Haven | Woodcut 60 cm x 50 cm.
In Maori legend in Tauranga, Princess Taurikura was asked by her grandfather to fetch him some water. She refused so he had to climb down from the pa to fetch water and return home uphill which was very difficult for him. When he returned, Taurikura had the audacity to ask him for some water because she was thirsty. He was enraged and told her so.
Because she was embarrassed, in the guise of night, she turned herself into a taniwha (an ancient creature like a tuatara) and she carved her way from Tauriko towards Mauoa (Mount Maunganui) which created the Tauriko valley. She swam out to sea past Mauoa and because she was tired, she landed on Karewa Island where she stayed forever.
I’m looking forward to learning so much over the Summer School week and creating new experimental pieces. I’m also loving the printmaking community. You are all so welcoming.”
About the Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship fund:
PCANZ is excited a new fund was been created in 2023 to support the Summer School Scholarship, now named the Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship.
The Gary Tricker Summer School Scholarship fund has been created thanks to the Gary Tricker deceased estate through the sale of his studio items.
PCANZ is hugely grateful to the family and the estate, and to those who worked tirelessly towards setting up of the fund. It was a massive undertaking by the PCANZ team - Lynne and Alan Wilburn, Rosalie and Jack Thompson, Kathy Boyle and Heather Partel. Huge thanks to all who made this possible.
Gary Tricker was an Honorary member of PCANZ. You can find out more about him in the Stuff obituary here and p38 in PROOF, the PCANZ 2023 publication.