Judith Eleanor Jane Cowan, generally known as Juliet Peter, was a New Zealand artist, potter, and printmaker.
13 Facts About Juliet Peter
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Juliet Peter's husband Roy Cowan was a well-known New Zealand potter, printmaker and illustrator.
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Juliet Peter's mother was Violet Peter, the eldest child of the surveyor, photographer, explorer, farmer, and entomologist Edward Sealy from Timaru.
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Juliet Peter returned to New Zealand with her sister after her family faced financial strain in the 1930s, and attended the Canterbury College School of Art at the suggestion of an aunt.
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From 1945 till 1951 Juliet Peter was based in Wellington producing work while working as an illustrator.
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Cowan and Juliet Peter moved to London in 1951, where she first studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts but then moved to the Hammersmith School of Art.
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Juliet Peter continued to work in the medium and produced a substantial body of prints.
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In 1968, along with her friend, painter Rita Angus, Juliet Peter made a series of works recording her protest over the razing of the Bolton Street Cemetery to extend Wellington's urban motorway.
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In 1999 Juliet Peter was included in The Eighties Show at The Dowse Art Museum, an exhibition of artists who were still active in their eighties, including Doreen Blumhardt, John Drawbridge, Roy Cowan and Avis Higgs.
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Juliet Peter exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, the Canterbury Society of Arts, The Group, and the Auckland Society of Arts.
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Juliet Peter died in Wellington in 2010, and her ashes were buried at Makara Cemetery.
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Juliet Peter's work was shown alongside Roy Cowan's in 2014 at The Dowse Art Museum in A Modest Modernism: Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter.
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Juliet Peter's work is held in the collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The Dowse Art Museum, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.