{{short description|NZ art curator, reviewer, and author}} {{infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Jill Trevelyan | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1963}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | residence = | nationality = New Zealand | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | home_town = | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = New Zealand art | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc.; or omit --> }} '''Jill Trevelyan''' (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art dealer Peter McLeavey, which won the Book of the Year award in the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2014.<ref name ='backhouse'>{{cite web|last1=Backhouse|first1=Matthew|title= 'Stunning' biography beats Catton in NZ awards|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11315194|website=NZ Herald|accessdate=20 December 2015|date=28 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=Booknotes>{{cite web|title=Jill Trevelyan on Peter McLeavey, art and stellar biography|url=http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/jill-trevelyan-peter-mcleavey-art-stellar-biography/|website=Booknotes Unbound|publisher=New Zealand Books Council|accessdate=20 December 2015}}</ref>
As of 2015, she is the manager of the art collection belonging to New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<ref>{{cite web|title=Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer|url=http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapaPress/FullCatalogue/Art/Pages/PeterMcLeavey.aspx|website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa}}</ref>
==Publications== {{Expand list|date=December 2015}} * Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson: ''Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist'', Auckland: Massey University Press, 2024. {{ISBN|9781991016768}} * ''Robin White: Something is happening here'' (edited by Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan and Nina Tonga, Te Papa Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), 2022. {{ISBN|9780995138438}} *''Peter McLeavey: the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer'', Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2013. {{ISBN|9780987668844}} *''Rita Angus: an artist's life'', Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9781877385391}} *Jill Trevelyan and William McAloon, ''Rita Angus: life & vision'', Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9781877385353}} *Jill Trevelyan and Sarah Treadwell, ''Joanna Margaret Paul: Drawing'', Auckland: Auckland University Press and Mahara Gallery, 2006. {{ISBN|1869403681}} *''Toss Woollaston: a life in letters'', Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0909010072}} *Jill Trevelyan and Vita Cochran, ''Rita Angus: live to paint & paint to live'', Auckland: Godwit Press in association with City Gallery Wellington, 2001. {{ISBN|1869620917}} *''Frances Hodgkins'', Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1993. {{ISBN|0908843054}} *''A Canterbury perspective since the 'sixties'', Christchurch: Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1990. {{ISBN|0908874057}}
===Articles=== {{Expand list|date=December 2015}}
*'Multiplying the angles', ''New Zealand Listener'', 31 Jan 2015<ref>{{cite web|title=Multiplying the angles|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=821956|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'The path followed', ''Art New Zealand'', no. 146, Winter 2013, pp. 62–66<ref>{{cite web|title=The path followed|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=764809|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Doing what she pleased', ''New Zealand books'', vol. 20 no.1, Autumn 2010, p. 19<ref>{{cite web|title=Doing what she pleased|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=619528|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Brideshead revisited', ''New Zealand Listener'', 28 March 2009, p. 43<ref>{{cite web|title=Brideshead revisited'|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=575973|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Power of now', ''New Zealand Listener'', 7 Feb 2009, pp. 44–45<ref>{{cite web|title=Power of now|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=572158|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Strange fruit', ''New Zealand Listener'', 9 Aug 2008, p. 44<ref>{{cite web|title=Strange fruit|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=557507|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Perfectly fairy-godmotherish : the friendship of Toss Woollaston and Ursula Bethell', ''Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries'', vol. 4, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 3–16<ref>{{cite web|title=Perfectly fairy-godmotherish : the friendship of Toss Woollaston and Ursula Bethell|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=365852|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Great expectations : the Promised Land at the Suter', ''Art New Zealand'', no. 96, Spring 2000, pp. 99–101,110<ref>{{cite web|title=Great expectations : the Promised Land at the Suter|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=336836|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'Leonard Mitchell : a cautionary tale', ''Art New Zealand'', no. 67, Winter 1993, pp. 85–87<ref>{{cite web|title=Leonard Mitchell : a cautionary tale|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=173736|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *'T A McCormack : the late work', ''Art New Zealand'', no. 61, Summer 1991/92, pp. 58–61<ref>{{cite web|title=T A McCormack : the late work|url=http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=132842|website=Index New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Awards and recognitions==
* (2014) New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book for ''Peter McLeavey : the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer'' <ref name='backhouse'/> *(2014) Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book at the PANZ Awards for ''Peter McLeavey : the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer''<ref>{{cite web|title=Extraordinary life story from Te Papa Press nominated for top award|url=http://www.mch.govt.nz/news-events/news/extraordinary-life-story-te-papa-press-nominated-top-award|website=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|accessdate=20 December 2015|date=23 July 2014|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222123039/http://www.mch.govt.nz/news-events/news/extraordinary-life-story-te-papa-press-nominated-top-award|url-status=dead}}</ref> *(2009) Montana Medal for Non-Fiction and winner of the Biography Category in the Montana Book Awards f<nowiki/>or ''Rita Angus : an artist's life''<ref>{{cite web|title=Perkins Writes Story of her Wife to Win Montana Medal|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/perkins-writes-story-of-her-wife-to-win-montana-medal|website=Creative New Zealand|accessdate=20 December 2015|date=28 July 2009}}</ref> *(2009) Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers' Choice Award for ''Rita Angus : an artist's life''<ref>{{cite web|title=Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life|url=http://tepapa.govt.nz/TePapaPress/FullCatalogue/Art/Pages/Rita.Angus.Bio.aspx|website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|accessdate=20 December 2015}}</ref> *(2008) Copyright Licensing Ltd Writers Award ($35,000 towards the writing of ''Rita Angus : an artist's life'')<ref>{{cite web|title=Writer’s Prize Paved Way For Angus Biography|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00162/writers-prize-paved-way-for-angus-biography.htm|website=Scoop.co.nz|accessdate=20 December 2015}}</ref>
==Further information==
*[http://www.radionz.co.nz/collections/nzfa/audio/2588558/jill-trevelyan-nz-festival-writers-week Jill Trevelyan at the NZ Festival Writers Week], RNZ National, 11 March 2014 *[http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Jill-Trevelyan-on-the-life--times-of-a-New-Zealand-art-dealer/tabid/506/articleID/39015/Default.aspx Jill Trevelyan on Peter McLeavey], RadioLive, 17 November 2013 *[http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/1429333/jill-trevelyan,-on-rita-angus Jill Trevelyan interviewed on artist Rita Angus], RNZ National, 24 June 2013
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