JS Parker
1944 - 2017
John Shotton (JS) Parker graduated with First Class Honours from Christchurch’s Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1966 and worked as an art teacher while continuing to paint during the 1970s. In 1975 he was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago. He became a full-time artist in 1977 and painted prolifically until his last illness in 2017. He was awarded the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. His works continue to be exhibited across New Zealand with a collection held at Marlborough’s Millennium Art Gallery.
Awards and acknowledgements
2014: Marlborough Living Cultural Treasure
2002: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
1975: Frances Hodgkin's Fellow
Collections
Parker's work is held in numerous private collections in New Zealand and internationally.
He has works in the public art collections of:
Marlborough's Millennium Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
University of Victoria, Wellington
University of Otago's Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hakena.
Recent media
December 10, 2017: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/99674765/js-parker-an-artist-a-teacher-a-lover--and-a-poet
August 15, 2017: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/95783243/js-parker-remembered-for-his-view-of-the-world-through-colour-and-shape
September 5, 2016: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/83825646/marlborough-artist-js-parker-completes-canvas-from-ralph-hotere
November 2, 2015: https://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/your-marlborough/73378966/exhibition-depicts-light-darkness
April 25, 2014: http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/9977478/Painter-named-Marlboroughs-newest-living-treasure