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Juliet Peter (Judith Eleanor Jane Peter) was born on 18 September, 1915 in Anama, New Zealand, is a New Zealand artist, potter, printmaker and sculptor (1915–2010). Discover Juliet Peter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

Popular As Judith Eleanor Jane Peter
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Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 18 September, 1915
Birthday 18 September
Birthplace Anama, New Zealand
Date of death 2010
Died Place Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1875

Her mother was Violet Peter (1875–1926), the eldest child of the surveyor, photographer, explorer, farmer, and entomologist Edward Sealy (1839–1903) from Timaru.

1915

Judith Eleanor Jane Cowan (née Peter, 18 September 1915 – 12 January 2010), generally known as Juliet Peter, was a New Zealand artist, potter, and printmaker.

Her husband Roy Cowan was also a well-known New Zealand potter, printmaker and illustrator.

Peter was born at Anama in rural Mid Canterbury in 1915, and growing up on a farm there she did not receive a formal education.

1920

During the 1920s, Peter's life was disrupted by the death of her mother and illness of her father; which led to the selling of the family farm and relocation of her family to England.

1928

Her father was Charles James Peter (born 1867; died in Pape'ete, Tahiti, 5 April 1928 ), a son of William Spence Peter (1818–1891) who lived at Anama and served as a member of the Legislative Council.

1930

Peter returned to New Zealand with her sister after her family faced financial strain in the 1930s, and attended the Canterbury College School of Art at the suggestion of an aunt.

1945

From 1945 till 1951 Peter was based in Wellington producing work while working as an illustrator.

During this time she showed works at the Architectural Centre Gallery, Centre Gallery 2, Centre Gallery 3, and the Helen Hitchings Gallery.

1947

In 1947 she started working for the Department of Education in their School Publication branch as an illustrator.

1951

Cowan and Peter moved to London in 1951, where she first studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts but then moved to the Hammersmith School of Art.

This is where Peter was first introduced to Lithography and Pottery which she says "completely changed our whole approach to the arts".

Owing to Cowan's commitments to contracts with School Publications they returned to Wellington, setting up a studio.

1952

In 1952 she married potter Roy Cowan.

1968

In 1968, along with her friend, painter Rita Angus, Peter made a series of works recording her protest over the razing of the Bolton Street Cemetery to extend Wellington's urban motorway.

1969

Peter wrote of the visits she and Angus made:"‘Conversation was kept to a minimum, we did not wish to attract attention to ourselves. But from time to time, a low voice would call, “Juliet, come and see …” and together we would examine a curious inscription, or a pattern of lichen on stone.""‘The summer of 1969 favoured our work. Sundays were usually fine, continuing into autumn. As the Engines of Destruction advanced up the cemetery, so we retreated.’"In 1999 Peter was included in The Eighties Show at The Dowse Art Museum, an exhibition of artists who were still active in their eighties, including Doreen Blumhardt, John Drawbridge, Roy Cowan and Avis Higgs.

Peter also exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, the Canterbury Society of Arts, The Group, and the Auckland Society of Arts.

2000

In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, Peter was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.

Peter's work is held in the collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The Dowse Art Museum, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

2010

She died in Wellington in 2010, and her ashes were buried at Mākara Cemetery.

2014

Her work was shown alongside Roy Cowan's in 2014 at The Dowse Art Museum in A Modest Modernism: Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter.

2019

While Peter was attending, the School of Arts had a focus on the 19th century, which did not appeal to her, and she found the library to be old and out-dated.

In contrast Peter described the Christchurch art scene as "lively", and said that a travelling Canadian exhibition organised by Arthur Lismer "provided an absolute window into another way of doing things" and "had a profound influence on us all, on everybody."