Wing Dust

Exploring the eccentric mind of the artist June Black

Author: Sheridan Keith

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June Black (1910-2009) was a New Zealand sculptor, painter, printmaker and playwright, who exhibited nationally and internationally in the 1950s and 60s. Wing Dust is author Sheridan Keith's biography of her mother that quotes generously from the journals and gives her own perspective on a fascinating woman ahead of her time.

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June Black (1910–2009) was a multi-faceted artist,painter, ceramicist, and writer, who exhibited inthe 1950s and 1960s, battling for visibility in amale-dominated art world. Her work reflected herextensive reading and interest in existentialism,surrealism and the theatre of the absurd. SheridanKeith’s biography of her mother quotes generouslyfrom the journals June kept over forty years to keeptrack of her extensive reading, her art practice andher life, and from June’s absurdist play The PurpleUmbrella. The result is a biography that sizzles witherudition and humour and gives a rare insight into afascinating woman ahead of her time.

About the Author

Sheridan Keith is known for her work as a journalist andfiction writer. Her short story collection Shallow are the Smilesat the Supermarket was shortlisted for the CommonwealthWriters’ Prize Best First Book, and her novel, Zoology, won theMontana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction 1996. Keithruns a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques in Northcote,Auckland