{{Short description|New Zealand artist and photographer}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox artist | birth_name = Emily May Collis | birth_date = 1870 | death_date = {{death date and age|1903|08|23|1870}} | death_place = Whanganui, New Zealand | known_for = photography, drawing }} '''Emily May Carlisle (née Collis)''' was a New Zealand photographer and artist.
== Biography == Emily May Collis was born in 1870 to William Collis, photographer, and his wife, Mary.<ref>Registration No. 1870/12842. ''New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950.'' https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/</ref>
Her brother William Andrew Collis was also a photographer and she was a colourist for him, notably in 1891 when she coloured his collection of Christmas cards.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=29 August 1903 |title=Pars about People |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19030829.2.9 |work=Observer |pages=4 |volume=XXIII |issue=50}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=20 October 1891 |title=Untitled |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18911020.2.9 |work=Taranaki Herald |pages=2 |volume=XL |issue=9208}}</ref>
Sometime later, Collis and Annie Elizabeth Davis worked together at Wrigglesworth and Binns photography studio of Wellington.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Lissa |title=Annie Davis |url=https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/persons/12812/annie-davis |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery |language=en}}</ref> In 1899, Collis and Davis opened their own photography studio, The Ridgway Studio, in Whanganui.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18991211.2.10 "Untitled"]. ''Taranaki Herald''. Vol. XLVIII, no. 11696. 11 December 1899. p. 2.</ref> They displayed their photographs in the front of the studio, and were particularly well known for their portraits of children.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Taylor Moore |first=Jennifer |date=2020-04-19 |title=New discoveries from the archive |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/sarjeant-new-discoveries-from-the-edith-collier-trust-archive/4J2LKMVLXKRFBIVYULIGTL2MOY/?c_id=1503426&objectid=12326071 |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref>[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19000421.2.20 "Untitled"]. ''Wanganui Herald''. Vol. XXXIV, no. 10017. 21 April 1900. p. 2.</ref> They sold the studio in 1901.<ref name=":1" />
Collis also drew, and published several caricatures and sketches in the Observer.<ref name=":0" /> Her drawings for the Observer were described as "clever and humourous [sic] black and white work."<ref name=":0" /> She was also described as an artist of "considerable talent."<ref name=":3" />
On 30 September 1901, Collis married Francis Alexander Shaw Carlisle, and they had a daughter in 1902.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 October 1901 |title=Marriages |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19011017.2.2.2 |work=New Zealand Herald |pages=1 |volume=XXXVIII |issue=11787}}</ref>
Carlisle died on 23 August 1903, possibly due to complications from childbirth.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 August 1903 |title=Deaths |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH19030824.2.15 |work=Taranaki Herald |pages=4 |volume=L |issue=12340}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/2014/11/collis-and-davis.html Emily Collis and Annie Davis on the Early New Zealand Photographers blog]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlisle, Emily May}} Category:1870 births Category:1903 deaths Category:New Zealand women photographers Category:New Zealand women artists