Marianne Muggeridge (born 1952) is a New Zealand painter and screenprinter based in Taranaki. She is best known for portraits of notable New Zealanders, cityscapes and landscapes.
Early life Muggeridge was born in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1952. As a child, her family moved to Taranaki, where they lived in Alton, Ōpunake and New Plymouth.Art Taranaki Oral History Project, Interview with Marianne Muggeridge, September 2003 She is of English and Irish ancestry.Puke Ariki Homework exhibition 2020 Meet the Artists
Education Muggeridge attended Spotswood College in New Plymouth and later Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1973.
Career From the early 1970s Muggeridge lived outside New Zealand,Dominion Post, Marianne Muggeridge: Close and personal, 8 April 2013 including in Paris, Wales and London. In 1985 she held an exhibition at New Zealand House.
In 2000, Muggeridge returned to New Zealand, settling in Wellington where she learned screenprinting from Michael Smither. She won the first New Zealand Portrait Gallery Adam Portraiture award in 2000 for Lucy in her Green DressNZ Portrait Gallery National Portrait Competition 2000 and again in 2002 for Meren and Josie,NZ Portrait Gallery National Portrait Competition 2002 receiving commendations in the contest in a further five years.Marianne Muggeridge on NZ Portrait Gallery
Muggeridge's success in the Adam Portraiture Award led to commissions to paint portraits of notable New Zealanders, including Don Brash for Reserve Bank of New Zealand,Brash portrait shows two sides of his character, NZ Herald, 9 January 2003 Professor Alan MacDiarmid and Sir Paul Callaghan for the Royal Society of New ZealandA Portrait of Victoria's Science, Faculty of Science, 2017 and Professors James McWha and Judith Kinnear for Massey University.Marianne Muggeridge website
In 2011, she returned to live and work in Taranaki.Dominion Post, Marianne Muggeridge: Close and personal, 8 April 2013
In 2013, the New Zealand Portrait Gallery held a major retrospective of Muggeridge's work, including some 50 nudes, portraits of individuals and groups, and landscapes.
Muggeridge's work is in the collections of many notable New Zealand Institutions, including Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,Te Papa art collection object Awatuna church screenprint Taranaki's Puke ArikiPuke Ariki Heritage collection: Nina and Ruby with Marianne reflected museum and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.New Zealand Portrait Gallery collection Marianne Muggeridge
Style and methods Muggeridge's style is described as realist.Puke Ariki Person profile Marianne Muggeridge She prefers to paint from life. She says her paintings of people often involve multiple sittings, and some have taken up to four years to complete. She also speaks of the importance of the relationship between the artist and the sitter in portraiture, using colour and shadow in landscape painting and when painting a nude, attention to skin tones.The Big Art Trip series 1 episode 7 2001
Muggeridge says she changes between landscapes and portraits because changing between the two can bring about feelings of relief or stimulation. She has used a freezer to keep oil paint wet between sittings.
Awards Winner, 2000 Adam Portraiture Award, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, for Lucy in her Green Dress Winner, 2002 Adam Portraiture Award, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, for Meren and Josie
References
External links Marianne Muggeridge official website Marianne Muggeridge's studio for Puke Ariki, Home Work: Taranaki Art 2020 exhibition