JOHN Z. ROBINSON

'John Z. Robinson' (born in Foxton May 25, 1953) is a New Zealand artist and jeweller.
From 1978 to 1980 Robinson attended Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin where he was tutored in painting by Walden Tucker and the British-born artist Bernard Holman (1941 - 1988). He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts and returned to complete Honours in 1996. Robinson has worked as a designer, jeweller, painter, print maker and sculptor. He is a colourist whose paintings (acrylic) and prints (linocut) are figurative in style. His paintings and prints have been exhibited throughout New Zealand and works are included in the collections of the Hocken Library, the Manawatu Art Gallery, the Rotorua Museum and the Wallace Arts Trust. Robinson was artist-in-residence at the Southland Museum in Invercargill in 1998. In 2006 the Port Gallery in Port Chalmers featured a retrospective of thirty years of his work in a show entitled ''John Z Robinson. A Survey of Paintings and Prints.''
Robinson has exhibited his paintings in New York and his jewellery has been shown in Japan, New Zealand and the United States of America, most notably at the Bead International in Athens, Ohio in 2000.
Robinson's painting and print work has been the feature of two books - ''Other Mens' Flowers. Portraits by John Z. Robinson'' and ''Lake Warhola Soup - The Word-Prints of J. Z. Robinson''.

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★ Eggleton, D., ''Hot Gossip and Holy Ground'' in New Zealand Listener, 27 May, 2006 - 2 June, 2006, Vol. 204, No. 3446.

★ Graczer, P. B., ''Other Men's Flowers. Portraits by John Z. Robinson.'' brent_coutts@hotmail.com Auckland, New Zealand, 2003. (ISBN 0-473-09718-4). (Reprinted as ''Of Aztecs, Azaleas and Acquaintances'' in Lino, Issue No. 6, 2004, pp.94-99).

★ Graczer, P. B., ''Lake Warhola Soup. The Word-Prints of J. Z. Robinson.'' brent_coutts@hotmail.com Auckland, New Zealand, 2004. (ISBN 0-476-01072-1).

★ McGahey, K., ''The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists, Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors.'' Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. (ISBN 0-473-05802-2).

★ The Otago Arts Trust, ''Otago Arts Guide, Art Roads of Otago.'' Dunedin, New Zealand, 2002. (ISBN 0-473-08054-0).