Book Launch I Tony Fomison by Mark Forman
Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist by Mark Forman. In a career spanning three decades, Tony Fomison (1939-1990) produced some of New Zealand’s most artistically and culturally significant paintings and drawings, the backdrop of which was a life inseparable from his art, of enduring intrigue.
All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP www.tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Forman is a writer based in Onehunga, Auckland. His doctoral thesis formed the basis of his first book, a scholarly work published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. Forman’s personal interests in New Zealand contemporary art, biography and social history were the drivers for this project, for which he has been awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant, the 2024 Marti and Gerrard Friedlander Charitable Trust publishing grant, and a runner-up placement in the CLNZ / NZSA Writers’ Award.
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