Denys Trussell

Denys Trussell lives in Auckland, teaching and performing as a classical pianist. Born in Christchurch in 1946, he’s written on arts and ecology since the 1970s, including biographies on ARD Fairburn in 1984 and on Alan Pearson in 1991. His collected poems, "By Sea Mouths Speaking", was published in 2019. Nigel Brown, born in Invercargill in 1949, now lives in Dunedin. Known as a figurative painter over 50 years, his commitment to issues – human rights, crises in ecology - constantly drives his imagery. The public nature of his work - its social vision – has been recognized with an ONZM.