Rona Ina Dyer
New Zealand artist, printmaker, painter and book illustrator
About Rona Ina Dyer
Lived 1923 – 2021 (aged 97–98). Rona Ina Dyer was a New Zealand printmaker, painter, illustrator, photographer, artist and teacher.
Rona Ina Dyer (1923–2021) was a New Zealand artist, working in wood-engraving, watercolours and oils. Her work was used to illustrate books and is also held in the permanent collections of Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui and Christchurch Art Gallery. She was also known for mural design and painting. She also studied art at the Central School of Art and Design and Goldsmith College in London.
Before the end of World War II, she began training as an art teacher at Dunedin Teachers' College and also studied education at the University of Otago.
In 1948, Caxton Press published a book of her wood-engravings. In 1995 the Otago Art Society held a retrospective exhibition of Dyer's works.
In 1999, the Hocken Library mounted an exhibition of the works of Dyer alongside two other Dunedin designers, Lily Daff and Eileen Mayo.
Dyer died in 2021 at the age of 99 at the Yvette Williams Home in Dunedin.
In 2024, two of Dyer's works were included in a Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition Transitions – Aotearoa to London, featuring the works of artists who spent time studying in London from the late-1940s to the mid-1960s.
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New Zealand artist, printmaker, painter and book illustrator (1923–2021)
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Rona Ina Dyer was born in 1923 in Dunedin.
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Rona Ina Dyer died on 20 May 2021.
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Rona Ina Dyer was a printmaker, painter, illustrator, photographer, artist and teacher.
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Rona Ina Dyer was New Zealand.
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