Jacky Bowring

{{Short description|New Zealand landscape architect, contemporary, active in England}}

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Jacky Bowring (sometimes Jacqueline) {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|CRSNZ}} is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic specialising in memories and memorials. She is currently a full professor at Lincoln University.{{cite web|url=http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/About-Lincoln/Staff-Profiles/?StaffID=Bowring%20Jacky |title=Staff Profiles | Lincoln University |publisher=Lincoln.ac.nz |accessdate=21 February 2018}} In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Academic career

After a BSc (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma{{cite thesis |last=Bowring |first=Jacky |year=1989 |type=Diploma thesis |title=Painting New Zealand |publisher=Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury |hdl=10182/5549 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10182/667}} and then a PhD{{cite thesis |last=Bowring |first=J. |year=1997 |title=Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects |version=PhD thesis |publisher=Lincoln University, New Zealand |hdl=10182/667 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10182/5549}} in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor in 2013.{{Cite web |title=New Companion: Professor Jacky Bowring |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/new-companion-professor-jacky-bowring/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}

Bowring's 2015 book A Field Guide to Melancholy was reviewed in The Guardian.{{cite news|author=Ian Pindar |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/25/field-guide-to-melancholy-jacky-bowring |title=Review: A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky Bowring | Books |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=21 February 2018}}

In 2017, Bowring was one of five winners in an LA+Journal competition to design an island, for which she took inspiration from Howland Island.{{cite web|last=Testado |first=Justine |url=https://archinect.com/news/bustler/5853/how-would-you-design-a-new-island-check-out-the-winning-proposals-from-the-la-imagination-ideas-competition |title=How would you design a new island? Check out the winning proposals from the LA+ IMAGINATION ideas competition|publisher=Archinect |date=30 January 2018 |accessdate=21 February 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://nzila.co.nz/news/2017/08/nzila-member-one-of-five-winners-of-international- |title=Dr Jacky Bowring, one of five winners of international design competition | NZ Institute of Landscape Architects |publisher=Nzila.co.nz |accessdate=21 February 2018}}{{Cite journal |journal=Landscape Architecture Plus |last=Bowring |first=Jacqueline |date=2018 |title=The island of lost objects |url= https://hdl.handle.net/10182/10912 |language=en |issn=2376-4171 |issue=07 |pages=22–27}}

Bowring has been a part of the public discussion about the rebuilding of Christchurch after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.{{cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/89638351/Christchurch-Earthquake-Memorial-draws-on-rich-tradition-of-memorials-around-the-world |title=Christchurch Earthquake Memorial draws on rich tradition of memorials around the world |work=Stuff.co.nz |accessdate=21 February 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/68555673/earthquake-memorial-says-nothing-about-christchurch |title=Earthquake memorial 'says nothing about Christchurch' |work=Stuff.co.nz |date=15 May 2015 |accessdate=21 February 2018}}{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/8536943/Chch-risks-becoming-a-soulless-city |title=Chch risks becoming a 'soulless city' |work=Stuff.co.nz |date=11 April 2013 |accessdate=21 February 2018}}

She was awarded the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for her essay "Art Therapy".{{Cite web |date=2021-12-21 |title=Top honours for multi-talented academic |url=https://www.lincoln.ac.nz/news-and-events/top-honours-for-multi-talented-academic/ |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=Lincoln University}}

In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for her "innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture".

Selected works

Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Tastes in tension: form, function, and meaning in New Zealand’s farmed landscapes." Landscape and Urban Planning 57, no. 3-4 (2001): 177–196.
Bowring, Jacky. A Field Guide to Melancholy. Oldcastle Books, 2015.
Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Making a 'mess' in the countryside: Organic farming and the threats to sense of place." Landscape Journal 25, no. 1 (2006): 54–66.
Vallance, Suzanne, Harvey C. Perkins, Jacky Bowring, and Jennifer E. Dixon. "Almost invisible: Glimpsing the city and its residents in the urban sustainability discourse." Urban Studies 49, no. 8 (2012): 1695–1710.
Egoz, Shelley, and Jacky Bowring. "Beyond the romantic and naive: the search for a complex ecological aesthetic design language for landscape architecture in New Zealand." Landscape research 29, no. 1 (2004): 57–73.

References

External links

{{ResearchGate | id= Jacky_Bowring | name= Jacky Bowring }}

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