Marianne Muggeridge -
Winner, National Portrait Competition 2000
&
Inaugural Adam Portraiture Award Winner 2002

Full titles: Lucy in her Green Dress
&
Meren and Josie (below)

Artist: Marianne Muggeridge

Size: About two-third life size

Medium: oil on canvas

Exhibition Winners:
Inaugural National Portrait Award 2000
&
Inaugural Adam Award 2002 respectively

Ownership: Lucy owned by the artist
Meren and Josie - private ownership

In 2000 Marianne Muggeridge won the inaugural New Zealand Portrait Gallery's National Portrait Competition judged by Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of London's National Portrait Gallery, with Lucy in her Green Dress (top). She won again in 2002 in the renamed Adam Portrait Award judged by Andrew Sayers, Director of the Australian National Portrait Gallery.

Marianne's association with the New Zealand Portrait Gallery began with Butter for my Bread - an exhibition founding member, Judy Williams organised in the 1990s about the dairy industry. She also exhibited in Great teachers.

Marianne works entirely from sittings and not photographs. 'To me there is a huge difference,' she says.

Of this stage in her life, Marianne says, " Judy initially rang me on the prompting of Garth Tapper. I was working as a portrait / landscape painter and screen printer based in South Taranaki."

"I entered the inaugural competition in 2000. This was a non aquisitive competition and I won it with "Lucy in her green Dress" which I still have. The presentation was held in the Beehive and was a great occasion. There were 4 or 5 categories I think... including photography, sculpture, mixed media, painting and drawing. The second time I won was in 2002, judged by Australian Portrait Gallery Director, Andrew Sayers. This was also non aquisitive. I won it with a commissioned portrait of Meren and Josie".

"As part of the prize for portrait competition number two I received a commission to paint Alan MacDiarmid - N Z's nobel prize winning chemist and this has led to Royal Society portraits."