Dagmar Dyck
{{Short description|New Zealand artist}}{{Infobox artist
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1972}}
| education = Elam School of Fine Arts
| known_for = Prints, Paintings
| name = Dagmar Dyck
| nationality = New Zealand
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington
}}
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Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck (born 1972) is a New Zealand artist of Tongan and German descent.{{cite web|title=Dagmar Dyck|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/4456/|website=Find New Zealand Artists|accessdate=10 July 2015|archive-date=26 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226173258/http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/4456/|url-status=live}} Dyck's prints and paintings are often inspired by her cultural heritage and explore textile practices of Tonga.{{cite web|title=Dagmar Dyck|url=http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|website=Tautai, Guiding Pacific Arts|accessdate=10 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711060239/http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|archive-date=11 July 2015|url-status=dead}} In 2012, Dyck was co-curator of No'o fakataha, a group exhibition of Tongan artists.{{cite web|title=No'o fakataha|url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collection/object/am_library-catalogq40-80233 |accessdate=22 January 2022|archive-date=1 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701085046/http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collection/object/am_library-catalogq40-80233|url-status=live|publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum}} Dyck's inspirations come from Tonga’s textiles arts, which includes bark cloth, mats, baskets and clothes.{{cite web|title=Dagmar Dyck|url=http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/ |accessdate=22 January 2022|archive-date=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711060239/http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|url-status=dead|publisher=Tautai Pacific Arts Trust}}
Education
Dyck completed a Bachelor for Fine Arts through Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts in 1995. She was the first women of Tongan descent to do so.{{cite news|title=Tattoo artist takes Pasifika Art Award|url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/258698/tattoo-artist-takes-pasifika-art-award|accessdate=10 July 2015|agency=Radio New Zealand National|date=6 November 2014|archive-date=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711025408/http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/258698/tattoo-artist-takes-pasifika-art-award|url-status=live}} In 2009, Dyck graduated with a Graduate Diploma in teaching (Primary) from Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches art at Sylvia Park School in Mt Wellington, Auckland.{{cite web|title=Dagmar Dyck Artist Profile, Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust|url=http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|accessdate=22 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711060239/http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|archive-date=11 July 2015|url-status=dead}}
Awards and honors
In 2017 Dyck was selected for inclusion in an artist research role in the Ancient Futures Marsden Project to Europe in 2018.{{cite web|title=Marsden Project|url=https://artfair.co.nz/artist/dagmar-dyck/|accessdate=22 March 2018|archive-date=23 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323154759/https://artfair.co.nz/artist/dagmar-dyck/|url-status=live}}
In 2014 Dyck received the Contemporary Artist Award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards.{{cite web|last1=Chung|first1=Jasmyne|title=Celebrating innovation and diversity with Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards 2014|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/celebrating-innovation-and-diversity-with-creative-new-zealand-arts-pasifika-awards-2014|website=Creative New Zealand|publisher=Ministry of Culture and Heritage|accessdate=10 July 2015|archive-date=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711053441/http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/celebrating-innovation-and-diversity-with-creative-new-zealand-arts-pasifika-awards-2014|url-status=live}}
In 2002 Dyck was a finalist for the Wallace Art Awards.{{cite web|title=Dagmar Dyck Artist Profile|url=http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|accessdate=22 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711060239/http://www.tautai.org/artist/dagmar-dyck/|archive-date=11 July 2015|url-status=dead}}
Selected exhibitions
- 2017 un/trained thoughts, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Newmarket Auckland {{cite web|title=Exhibition|url=http://www.warwickhenderson.co.nz/exhibition/dagmar-dyck-new-work|accessdate=22 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323155016/http://www.warwickhenderson.co.nz/exhibition/dagmar-dyck-new-work|archive-date=23 March 2018|url-status=dead}}
- 2014 Tonga 'i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua Wellington {{cite web|title=Exhibition History|url=http://www.pataka.org.nz/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/page/6/|website=Pataka|accessdate=11 July 2015|archive-date=12 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712035616/http://www.pataka.org.nz/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/page/6/|url-status=live}}
- 2013. Pacific Voices II, Orexart Auckland.{{cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=http://www.orexgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/pacific%20voices_august-2013/default.aspx|website=Orex Gallery|accessdate=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115004613/http://orexgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/pacific%20voices_august-2013/default.aspx|archive-date=15 January 2015|url-status=dead}}
- 2013. To Be Pacific, Tairawhiti Museum + Art Gallery Gisborne.{{cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=http://www.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz/exhibits-galleries/current-calendar/Exhibitions2013.asp|website=Tairawhiti Museum|accessdate=11 July 2015|archive-date=12 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712113100/http://www.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz/exhibits-galleries/current-calendar/Exhibitions2013.asp|url-status=live}}
- 2013 Pacifica: Patterns of Exchange. Flagstaff Gallery Auckland with Sheyne Tuffery{{cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=http://www.flagstaff.co.nz/exhibition_detail.php?content=show_all|website=Flagstaff Gallery|accessdate=10 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712010416/http://www.flagstaff.co.nz/exhibition_detail.php?content=show_all|archive-date=12 July 2015|url-status=dead}}
- 2013 Made in Oceania, Tapa Art + Landscapes, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne{{cite web|title=Archive|url=http://www.made-in-oceania.com/|website=Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum|accessdate=11 July 2015|archive-date=1 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801204736/http://made-in-oceania.com/|url-status=live}}
- 2013 Between the Lines, Solander Gallery Wellington,{{cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=http://solandergallery.co.nz/search/node/dagmar%20dyck|website=Solander Gallery|accessdate=11 July 2015}}
- 2012. Made in New Zealand: An exhibition of Fine Art from New Zealand. Agora Gallery, New York, USA.{{cite web |title=To Be Pacific - opens |url=http://www.ectoolset.com/func/calendardetails.asp?sid=73&calid=22142 |publisher=Tairawhiti Museum |accessdate=11 July 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 2009. HAERE MAI I OKAI, Okaioceanikart, Auckland, New Zealand{{Cite web |last= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |title=Pacific artists for Matariki exhibition |url=https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00050/pacific-artists-for-matariki-exhibition.htm |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=Scoop}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNbMMH8eIoI/ Interview with Dyck]
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Category:New Zealand women artists
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:New Zealand people of Tongan descent
Category:New Zealand people of German descent
Category:Tongan women curators
Category:New Zealand women curators
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