Christina Conrad
All Along the Dark Avenues of the Soul
Exhibition extended until 2nd October
Visionary, inimitable artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, Christina Conrad
The Button Collectors Daughter, 2016
Conrad's paintings, clay icons and artistic theories have been the subject of three documentary films, and her paintings
and other works shown by major galleries and museums in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. She is
the daughter of the English painter and philosopher, Patrick Hayman.
Conrad is the author of three books and a play, entitled A Modern Crucifixion. She is listed in the Bloomsbury Book of
Women Writers (U.K.) and her poems anthologised in Emu & Kiwi (ed by Barbara Petrie), The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Verse (ed by Ian Wedde) and The Oxford Book
of Modern New Zealand Poetry (ed by Vincent Sullivan).
In June, 2000, the University of Auckland Press published a selection of Conrad's poems in Big Smoke, their definitive
anthology of New Zealand poetry in the 1960s and 70s. Her work also appears in numerous print journals, little
magazines, and newspapers round the world. The poet, Billy Marshall Stoneking, describes the experience of listening to
Conrad speaking her poetry as "tribal, unearthing some deep, instinctual understanding that has been buried in the
unconscious. She is bardic."
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