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Priscilla Pitts is a New Zealand writer and art curator.

Biography

Pitts was educated at the University of Auckland, gaining an MA in English and Art History.

In the 1980s, Pitts co-founded the magazine Antic, which focused on literature and visual arts.[1] She was also a frequent contributor to the journal Art New Zealand.[2]

From 1993 to 1998, Pitts was director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. She then moved to Dunedin and from 1998 to 2007 she was director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Otago Settlers Museum.[3] Between 2007 and 2014, Pitts had a managerial role at the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Since that time she has worked as a freelance writer and curator, working from Lower Hutt.

In 2017 she co-wrote a book on the history of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship.[4]

Publications

• Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture (1998), David Bateman[5]
• Undreamed of…50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship (2017, with Andrea Hotere), Otago University Press[4]

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