Tim Chadwick

Tim Chadwick (born 1962, Hawera, New Zealand) is a New Zealand artist and author. His mixed media paintings have been exhibited at the Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, the Manawatu Art Gallery in Palmerston North, and dealer galleries in Auckland and Wellington, as well as at the Lincoln Center, New York and in Australia and the United Kingdom. His paintings are held in the Massey University collection, the James Wallace collection of New Zealand art and several private collections in San Francisco, Melbourne, London and throughout New Zealand.

Chadwick has also had nine books published, including "Tractors in New Zealand" and "Saloon Motorsport in New Zealand". He also writes for New Zealand Classic Car Magazine, a local New Zealand newspaper and occasionally New Zealand Truck and Driver magazine. His artwork often has crossovers with his motoring writing, for example, a major series of work created in the late-1980s and early-1990s was painted on second hand car bonnets (hoods). A recent work features Abel Tasman, an Austin Tasman car and the now extinct Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger).

In his formative art years Chadwick was taught by artists Cliff Whiting, Paul Dibble and Frank Davis. He now teaches art at Inglewood High School in Taranaki. Tim Chadwick has two children,born in 1992 and 1995. In the early 1990s he led a group known as the Scarecrow Committee who unsuccessfully campaigned to prevent KFC from bulldozing the Hawera house of New Zealand author Ronald Hugh Morrieson and replacing it with a fast food outlet. This is detailed in Julia Millen's book, "Ronald Hugh Morrieson: A Biography".

Chadwick has two children and lives in New Plymouth.

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