Dunedin’s Frances Hodgkins Fellowship is celebrating its 50th anniversary of supporting New Zealand artists. Ask any of the 49 recipients of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. Contemporary visual artist Julia Morison (1988) was awarded the Moet & Chandon Fellowship in 1990 - it is no longer offered but was a year-long residency in Avize, France, that Pardington completed before the Hodgkins fellowship. -A book on the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship co-written by Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere will be published in 2017. To see‘‘Undreamed of ... 50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship’’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, November 5-February 26, 2017.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 02, 2016 17:36 UTC