Joanna Margaret Paul was a New Zealand visual artist, poet and film-maker.
13 Facts About Joanna Paul
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Joanna Paul attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School from 1959 until 1962, then the University of Waikato in 1963, studying history, French and English.
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Joanna Paul graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1969.
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In 1973 Joanna Paul and Harris spent a year in Wellington, where their first daughter was born; in 1976 a second daughter was born, who died of a heart defect at the age of eight months.
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Art historian Jill Trevelyan notes that 'Although Joanna Paul faced practical difficulties in reconciling the roles of mother and artist, she refused to see them as mutually exclusive.
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Joanna Paul was able to turn her domestic situation to her own advantage in her art, as her many tender and exquisite studies of her children attest.
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In 1983 Joanna Paul received the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago.
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The first major survey of Joanna Paul's work was shown at the Sarjeant Art Gallery in 1989.
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In 2003 Joanna Paul collapsed while bathing in a thermal pool in the Polynesian Spas in Rotorua.
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Joanna Paul left a body of work as a poet and prose writer, including a wealth of published material.
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The exhibitions focused on works produced in the 1970s and 1980s when the two were resident in Dunedin; most of the works by Joanna Paul were drawn from the Hocken's collections.
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In early 2015, three of Joanna Paul's films featured in a two person exhibition with contemporary artist Ziggy Lever commissioned by Ramp Gallery Hamilton.
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Joanna Paul published a number of small chapbooks, in addition to pieces of critical and observational writing in various New Zealand publications.