Jill Trevelyan (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art dealer Peter McLeavey, which won the Book of the Year award in the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2014.[1][2]

As of 2015, she is the manager of the art collection belonging to New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.[3]

Publications

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• Peter McLeavey: the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2013.ISBN 9780987668844
• Rita Angus: an artist's life, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008. ISBN 9781877385391
• Jill Trevelyan and William McAloon, Rita Angus: life & vision, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008. ISBN 9781877385353
• Jill Trevelyan and Sarah Treadwell, Joanna Margaret Paul: Drawing, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Mahara Gallery, 2006. ISBN 1869403681
• Toss Woollaston: a life in letters, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2004. ISBN 0909010072
• Jill Trevelyan and Vita Cochran, Rita Angus: live to paint & paint to live, Auckland: Godwit Press in association with City Gallery Wellington, 2001. ISBN 1869620917
• Frances Hodgkins, Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1993. ISBN 0908843054
• A Canterbury perspective since the 'sixties, Christchurch: Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1990. ISBN 0908874057

Articles

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• 'Multiplying the angles', New Zealand Listener, 31 Jan 2015[4]
• 'The path followed', Art New Zealand, no. 146, Winter 2013, pp. 62–66[5]
• 'Doing what she pleased', New Zealand books, vol. 20 no.1, Autumn 2010, p. 19[6]
• 'Brideshead revisited', New Zealand Listener, 28 March 2009, p. 43[7]
• 'Power of now', New Zealand Listener, 7 Feb 2009, pp. 44–45[8]
• 'Strange fruit', New Zealand Listener, 9 Aug 2008, p. 44[9]
• 'Perfectly fairy-godmotherish : the friendship of Toss Woollaston and Ursula Bethell', Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries, vol. 4, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 3–16[10]
• 'Great expectations : the Promised Land at the Suter', Art New Zealand, no. 96, Spring 2000, pp. 99–101,110[11]
• 'Leonard Mitchell : a cautionary tale', Art New Zealand, no. 67, Winter 1993, pp. 85–87[12]
• 'T A McCormack : the late work', Art New Zealand, no. 61, Summer 1991/92, pp. 58–61[13]

Awards and recognitions

• (2014) New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book for Peter McLeavey : the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer [1]
• (2014) Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book at the PANZ Awards for Peter McLeavey : the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer[14]
• (2009) Montana Medal for Non-Fiction and winner of the Biography Category in the Montana Book Awards for Rita Angus : an artist's life[15]
• (2009) Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers' Choice Award for Rita Angus : an artist's life[16]
• (2008) Copyright Licensing Ltd Writers Award ($35,000 towards the writing of Rita Angus : an artist's life)[17]

Further information

• Jill Trevelyan at the NZ Festival Writers Week, RNZ National, 11 March 2014
• Jill Trevelyan on Peter McLeavey, RadioLive, 17 November 2013
• Jill Trevelyan interviewed on artist Rita Angus, RNZ National, 24 June 2013

References