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Rona Dyer

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Dyer exhibited watercolours, oil paintings, wood-engravings and a piece of sculpture at the Otago Art Society. She also exhibited at the London Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, the Society of Wood Engravers and the
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In the mid-1940s Dyer became interested in mural design and painting, and was commissioned to create murals in Wellington and Dunedin. In 1947 she won a national mural competition organised by the
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where she was taught by painters Lula Currie and Myra Kirkpatrick. These teachers recommended Dyer continue her studies at the School of Art at
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published a book of her wood-engravings. In 1995 the Otago Art Society held a retrospective exhibition of Dyer's works.
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featuring the works of artists who spent time studying in London from the late-1940s to the mid-1960s.
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mounted an exhibition of the works of Dyer alongside two other Dunedin designers,
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Dyer died in 2021 at the age of 99 at the Yvette Williams Home in Dunedin.
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at Goldsmith College in London. She was also taught by
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3 Dunedin Designers: Lily Daff, Rona Dyer, Eileen Mayo
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wood-engraving
Sarjeant Gallery
Whanganui
Christchurch Art Gallery
Dunedin
Otago Girls' High School
King Edward Technical College
Central School of Art and Design
Goldsmith College
World War II
Dunedin Teachers' College
University of Otago
Royal Academy of Arts
New Zealand Institute of Architects
Cora Wilding
Ngaio Marsh
John Hutton
Gertrude Hermes
Caxton Press
Hocken Library
Lily Daff
Eileen Mayo
Dunedin Public Art Gallery


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