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Gregory O’Brien is a writer, painter and art curator. Alongside his poetry and painting, he has written major books on New Zealand art and artists including Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters (Godwit Publishing, 1996), A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy (Auckland University Press, 2011) and as co-editor Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance (Victoria University Press, 2005). O’Brien is also author of the multi-award-winning introductions to art for the young and curious: Welcome to the South Seas (Auckland University Press, 2004) and Back and Beyond (Auckland University Press, 2008), which both won the Non-Fiction Prize at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. As a writer, curator and contributing artist, O’Brien was involved in the Kermadec art exhibition, which travelled around New Zealand and the wider Pacific between 2012 and 2016. His book Always Song in the Water (Auckland University Press, 2019) is the basis for a major exhibition at the New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland. Gregory O’Brien became an Arts Foundation Laureate and won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2012, and in 2017 became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and received an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington.

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Gregory O'Brien

Gregory O'Brien

Don Binney: Flight Path

House & Contents

Always Song in the Water: An Oceanic Sketchbook

See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious

Whale Years

A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy

His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell

Days Beside Water

Beauties of the Octagonal Pool

Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious