I am a writer based in Onehunga, Auckland. My doctoral thesis formed the basis of my first book, a scholarly work published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. My personal interests in New Zealand contemporary art, biography and social history were the drivers for my biography Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist (Auckland University Press, March 2025). For this project I was awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant, the 2024 Marti and Gerrard Friedlander Charitable Trust publishing grant, and I achieved a runner-up placement in the CLNZ / NZSA Writers’ Award.

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