COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | Peter Cleverley: Between Transience and Eternity

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We are very pleased to be giving away a copy of Alistair Fox’s book, ‘Peter Cleverley: Between Transience and Eternity’, to our GrownUps members.

All you need to do to enter the draw is be a GrownUps member, make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter and fill in your details near the bottom of the page!

PETER-CLEVERLEYAbout Peter Cleverley: Between Transience and Eternity

This first comprehensive study of Cleverley is beautifully curated to highlight the artist’s aesthetic and ethical vision.

This beautiful, heavily illustrated book traces Peter Cleverley’s formation and evolution as an artist, identifying the myriad influences that aroused in him a profound sense of the transience of human life and the paradoxical complexity of the human condition. The portrait that results shows how Cleverley’s sense of the human condition has allowed him to convey it symbolically in a way that simultaneously captures not only the fragility of human life, but also its joys.

His art communicates an appreciation of the beauty of this world and the gift of being alive, together with the value of art as a means of transcending mutability. Cleverley is a painter whose work is destined to be recognised for making an important contribution to the history of art in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Author Alistair Fox has published extensively in the art world both locally and overseas and is well respected and connected. This book will be sought after by art lovers!

About the Author

Alistair Fox is a New Zealand scholar, former university administrator, and writer who specialises in English Tudor literature and history, New Zealand literature and cinema studies, contemporary literary and film theory, particularly with regard to national identity and the creative process. From 2019–2022, he has regularly written catalogue essays, most frequently for RDS Gallery, Dunedin, which he owned from 2020–2022. Despite his involvement in international scholarship, Alistair Fox has lived his whole life in the South Island of New Zealand, and has developed his career from his base in the University of Otago, where he taught several generations of students for 40 years.

A keen tramper who loves the bush and mountains of Te Waipounamu, he has always been especially interested in the influence of the landscape on the New Zealand psyche, a theme that he has recently pursued in studies of art by Otago painters who have exhibited at RDS Gallery, which is now directed by his wife, Hilary Radner.

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    1. You must be a GrownUps member and receive our newsletter to be eligible to win.
    2. Competition closes on the 7th May 2025, winners will be notified via email by 8th May 2025.
    3. It is your responsibility to ensure you correctly enter a New Zealand postal address where the prize can be sent. GrownUps will not take responsibility for prizes sent to incorrect addresses.
    4. Winners are drawn at random by the GrownUps administration team.
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