Shona McFarlane

Shona Graham McFarlane (27 March 1929 – 29 September 2001) was a New Zealand artist, journalist and broadcaster.

Biography McFarlane was born in Gore and educated at Otago Girls' High School, and studied teaching at the Dunedin Teachers' College. McFarlane taught art in New Zealand schools from 1950 to 1952, before moving to London where she taught in the mid-1950s.

During the 1960s and 1970s she served on the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, and was president of the Otago Art Society during the 1960s. Until 1975, she served on the Otago Theatre Trust committee, on the Dunedin Public Art Gallery council, and was president of the Dunedin Civic Arts Council. She was also a prominent campaigner to preserve several historic Dunedin buildings. 1974 – National Bank Art Award 1994 – Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the arts, 1994 New Year Honours 1994 – Governor General's Art Award, from New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

Books

Dunedin, Portrait of a City (1970) Mixed Media (1975) Of Cabbages And Things (1981) From Maungaraki (1983) White Moas and Artichokes (1993) Shona McFarlane: A Memoir (1999)