She was born in Greymouth on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand to Irish Catholic parents. Recently, he also gave an enlightening talk to the Friends of Te Papa, and despite his efforts over the past years, most of us had probably not heard of her before his talk. He has been writing about her for at least 20 years and contributed the Te Ara Biography of New Zealand entry on her, here, wrote the article Prophet without honour: Margaret Butler and the status of sculpture in New Zealand, 1937–40 in 2017, wrote a blog post on her when he was a curator at Te Papa in 2016, here and is contributing a chapter on her in a book to be published later this year on “Discovering women sculptors”. Art historian Mark Stocker is doing all he can to revive interest in an under-rated New Zealand sculptor Margaret Butler (1883 – 1947).
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