Priscilla Pitts
{{short description|New Zealand writer and curator}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://dowse.org.nz/events/priscilla-pitts-on-the-1980s|title=Priscilla Pitts: artists and the 1980s {{!}} The Dowse Art Museum|website=dowse.org.nz|language=en|access-date=8 February 2020}} She was also a frequent contributor to the journal Art New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/items?il%5Bcategory%5D=Journals&il%5Bprimary_collection%5D=findNZarticles&text=Priscilla+Pitts&commit=Search|title=Priscilla Pitts {{!}} Page 1 of 4 {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand|website=natlib.govt.nz|access-date=8 February 2020}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/about-exhibitions/staff-board/|title=Staff & Advisory Board {{!}} Adam Art Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=8 February 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/alumni/news/otago664810.html|title=New book celebrates fellowship's 50-year contribution to culture|last=Friends|first=Alumni &|website=University of Otago|language=en-nz|access-date=8 February 2020}}
= Publications =
- Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture (1998), David Bateman{{Cite web|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/21964917|title=Contemporary New Zealand sculpture : themes and issues / by Priscilla Pitts ; photo editor, Gil Hanly.|last=Pitts|first=Priscilla|date=1 January 1998|website=Contemporary New Zealand sculpture : ... {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand|access-date=8 February 2020}}
- Undreamed of…50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship (2017, with Andrea Hotere), Otago University Press
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