Bernard Holman (born in Woking, Surrey, England in 1941 and died in Dunedin, New Zealand on September 11, 1988) was an English-born artist who later emigrated to New Zealand to paint and teach. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Dunedin (dəˈneɪdɪn) Ōtepoti in Maori is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar)
He graduated from the Kingston-Upon-Thames School of Art in 1961 with a Diploma of Painting with Honours. Holman then spent several years teaching art in secondary schools, before being made visiting lecturer to the art department at his old school and at various other centres in Norfolk. He first exhibited as a student at the Suffolk Gallery and at the Royal Academy Diploma Gallery. Holman exhibited in London and Norfolk, before moving to New Zealand in 1974 where he was appointed to the Otago Polytechnic School of Art. In 1978, he took part in a two-man exhibition at the Otago Art Society and he had a one-man exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 1981. Holman also took part in the New Zealand Drawing Exhibition in 1982-3 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. He was head of the painting department at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art until his death.
The Dunedin artist John Z. Robinson was tutored in painting by Holman at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art. John Z Robinson (born May 25, 1953 in Foxton New Zealand) is a New Zealand artist and jeweller
Holman’s work is represented in private collections in England, the Netherlands, the United States of America and New Zealand. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has three of his works – one acrylic painting on canvas and two drawings. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds the main public art collection of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand.
Bibliography
Obituary. Otago Daily Times, 15 September, 1988.