Authors

Kate Camp is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020). She was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington.

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925–2009) was born in Rarotonga and came to New Zealand at the age of eight. His mother, Teu (née Bosini), came from the remote atoll of Tongareva (Penrhyn) and his father, Jock (John Archibald Campbell), was a successful trader from Otago, who emigrated to the islands in 1919 after service in the Gallipoli campaign. In his 60-year writing career, Campbell was the author of 20 collections of poems, as well as novels, plays and an autobiography. Campbell received many honours, most notably the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (1982), the Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Committee Senior Artist Award for Literature (1998), an Honorary DLitt from Victoria University of Wellington (1999), and a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (2005). In 2005 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

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Duncan Campbell studied Mandarin in Malaysia after graduating in English and History from Victoria University of Wellington. Between 1976–78, he was a student in the People’s Republic of China. Since then, he has taught (Chinese language, modern and classical; Chinese literature, modern and classical; and aspects of Chinese history and civilisation) at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2015, he was the Curator of the Chinese Garden with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, USA. His research focuses on the late imperial period of China’s long history. Brian Moloughney After completing an MA in Chinese history from the University of Canterbury, Brian Moloughney had the good fortune to be awarded a CHEP scholarship, which enabled him to live and study for a period in Nanjing. Between 1993 and 2022 he has taught Chinese history at the University of Otago.

Hamish Campbell has been a professional geologist in New Zealand for more than 30 years and is best known for his role as geologist and science commentator. Alan Beu and James Crampton are both paleontologists, Liz Kennedy is a paleobotanist and Marianna Terezow works as a photographer specialising in geology and paleontology.    

Mary Maringikura Campbell’s poetry collection titled Maringi was published in 2015 and awarded the Earl of Seacliff Poetry Prize in 2017. She has been writing poetry and songs since age 13 and has appeared in Kapiti Poems and other journals and anthologies. She has written and performed folk songs, been a member of the drama group Te Ohu Whakaari, and has had her poetry translated into Māori and Italian. The Auckland Folk Festival awarded her first prize in 1991 for her song ‘Missing’ for Karla Cardno, a murdered girl, who died in 1989. She is a daughter of the poets Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Meg Campbell. In 2011, Mary co-curated (with Peter Coates) the Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Exhibition at Pataka Museum in Porirua, which toured to the Cook Islands.

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Joyce Campbell (b. Aotearoa New Zealand) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has a BFA from the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury (1992) and an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (1999). She has lived, taught, and worked in Southern California and in Auckland, New Zealand, and has undertaken residencies in New Zealand (2001) and Antarctica (2006). Her recent work utilizes anachronistic photographic techniques, such as the daguerreotype and ambrotype, as well as conventional analogue and digital photography, video, film, and sculpture to examine the collision of natural and cultural systems. Campbell’s interest in biological and physical systems has led her to develop a set of photographic techniques that render visible the minute and incremental emergence of complex form, be that the growth of a microbial colony, crystals in the process of formation, the migration of glaciers into the ocean, or of silver from an electrode dispersing into colloidal suspension. She produces mural-scale photographs that invite her audiences to immerse themselves in the environments depicted. Campbell has participated in numerous exhibitions both in New Zealand and abroad including The Future is already here- it’s just not evenly distributed: The 20th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island & Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2016), Heavenly Bodies, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2014), Che Mondo: What a World, Curated by Carole Ann Klonarides, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2013), Te Taniwha/Crown Coach, Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA September (2012), The Liquid Archive, Curated by Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (2012), Altogether Elsewhere, Curated by Rob Tufnell for the Zoo Art Fair, London, Great Britain (2009). In 2019 the major survey exhibition On The Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the work of Joyce Campbell curated by John Welchman opened at The Adam Art Gallery in Wellington. Tessa Laird completed her Doctorate in Fine Arts at Elam, the University of Auckland in 2012. Laird has exhibited works locally and nationally in artist-run spaces, private galleries as well as public art institutions such as: In the Hand (Sarjeant Gallery, 2018), Turn of the Wheel (Malcolm Smith Gallery, 2016), Five by Five: New Conversations with Clay(Te Uru Contemporary Art Gallery, 2015), House of Bats (Corbans Estate Arts Centre, 2014), We Are But Dust and Shadow with Richard Orjis and Tiffany Singh (Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, 2014), Slip Cast (The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2014), Freedom Farmers: New Zealand Artists Growing Ideas (Auckland Art Gallery, 2013-2014), Reading Room with Peter Lange (Objectspace, Auckland, 2012) and the Portage Ceramic Awards(Lopdell House, Titirangi, 2012). Work by Laird was recently featured in Art News New Zealand and additionally she has published her own artist books both with Clouds publications: A Rainbow Reader (2014) and Shards of the Jealous Potter (2006), as well as writing a monograph for the acclaimed Reaktion Animal series, Bat (2018). Laird is currently based in Melbourne and works as an academic lecturing in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the School of Arts, University of Melbourne and as a writer alongside her arts practise. Dr Susan Ballard is an Associate Professor of art history at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches courses on art and the environment, affect and memory, and art writing. Her work spans the fields of art history, creative nonfiction, and environmental humanities. She writes for both academic and general audiences, and is particularly interested in collaborative narrative, nonfiction and fiction as a mode of art history.

Edwin Z. Canary (he/they) is an early 30-something Queer poet based in Tamaki-makau-rau/Auckland, with their husband; and with their cat, Thomas. Edwin's poetry is an expression of living with mental health issues, melancholia, uncertainty; as well as finding love, and the beauty in nature. An amateur historian, Edwin specialises in the Victorian era; taking inspiration from the aesthetic of the time; their love of nature, fascination with death, and the dark.

Gillian Candler is an award-winning author of books for children about New Zealand nature. These include the best-selling 'At the Beach: explore and discover the New Zealand seashore', 'Whose Beak is This?' and 'New Zealand Nature Heroes' Her passion for both tramping and the wildlife of Aotearoa is woven through this tramping tale. Gavin Mouldey is an illustrator that has worked across many different media, including illustration for a wide variety of book and educational publications, as a background designer for TV animation, and as a cartoonist. He illustrated 'Toroa's Journey' with text by Maria Gill, also published by Potton and Burton. He lives with his family on the Kapiti coast.