Janet Bayly

{{Short description|New Zealand artist, photographer, author, curator and gallery director (1955 -)}}

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Janet Lesley Bayly (born 7 June 1955){{Cite web |title=Janet Bayly {{!}} Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/166 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz}} is a New Zealand photographer, museum director and curator and is an authority on the works of Frances Hodgkins.{{Cite journal|last=Bosworth|first=Rhondda|date=1979|title=Exhibitions Auckland|url=https://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/exhibitions13akrb.htm|journal=Art New Zealand|volume=13}}{{Cite web|date=2010-10-11|title=Janet Bayly|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2270139/janet-bayly|access-date=2021-06-19|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} Her photographic works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,{{Cite web|title=Janet Bayly|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/166|access-date=2021-06-19|website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz}} the Christchurch Art Gallery,{{Cite web|title=Collection {{!}} Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz}} and the Sarjeant Gallery.{{Cite web|title=Orchids Triptych|url=https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/objects/44283/orchids-triptych|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui|language=en}}

Bayly was born in Tauranga in 1955 and was educated at Hutt Valley High School and then Elam School of Fine Arts. She completed her bachelor's degree in 1976 and obtained her master's degree in 1979.{{Cite web|title=Janet Bayly|url=https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/persons/9335/janet-bayly|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui|language=en}}

As at February 2021, Bayly is the director of the Mahara Gallery, the district public gallery for the Kāpiti Coast.{{Cite web|date=23 February 2021|title=Kete a tribute to whānau in new exhibition at Mahara Gallery|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kete-a-tribute-to-whanau-in-new-exhibition-at-mahara-gallery/XU5UF7XHWFR7Y3IRAHXD5LO2U4/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429002042/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kete-a-tribute-to-whanau-in-new-exhibition-at-mahara-gallery/XU5UF7XHWFR7Y3IRAHXD5LO2U4/|archive-date=29 April 2021|access-date=2021-06-19|website=NZ Herald|language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web|date=2021|title=About - Mahara Gallery|url=https://www.maharagallery.org.nz/mahara/display_doc_Final.cgi?sesid=dntsid_4091617dnGsYKw6tI&docno=50000227&crc=94231726|access-date=2021-06-19|website=www.maharagallery.org.nz}}