Ann Verdcourt

Ann Verdcourt is a New Zealand artist. She creates object art with clay.

Verdcourt was born in Bedfordshire, England, and immigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 1965. Verdcourt has been working with clay since the 1950s. Her work references many other artists and art movements, drawing from her extensive knowledge of art history. In her work one can find allusions to anything from Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Constantin Brâncuşi to the famous earthenware depiction of the Venus of Willendorf.

In 1992 she was commissioned to produce work for the Treasures of the Underworld exhibition that formed part of the New Zealand Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92.

Verdcourt has work in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, the James Wallace Collection, Auckland, Hawke's Bay Museum, Napier, and the Dowse, Lower Hutt.

List of Works

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?advanced=colProProductionMakers%3a%22Verdcourt%2c+Ann%22 Works in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]

Persondata
NAME = Verdcourt, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = artist, sculpter
DATE OF BIRTH =
PLACE OF BIRTH =
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =