Gavin Bishop - Author and Picture Book Artist

Major Lectures and Speaking Engagements

1980s	Featured Speaker at several Reading Association Conferences through out New Zealand.
1994	Lecture given at Te Niho o Te Atiawa, Parihaka, New Zealand - September.
1995	Featured Speaker at "Wordstruck" Festival of Writing, Dunedin - April.
1996	Guest Lecturer at Art Centre School of Design, Pasadena, California - 13th February.
1996	Tutored "Drawing" and "Children's Picturebook Design" for the Spring Semester at the Rhode Island School of Design - February to end of May.
1997	Gave lectures and ran a workshop on Children's Picture Book Illustration and Design in Jakarta for ACCU, (UNESCO) Tokyo.
2000	Margaret Mahy Lecture Award - March (see below for full text)
2000	Guest Speaker at 5th National Childrens' Book Council Of Australia Conference - May 11th -14th Canberra, (2 papers).
2000	Panelist at Auckland Writers' Festival - June (see below for full text).
2000	18th World Congress of Reading - 12th July, 2 papers (see below for full texts).
2000	Words On Wheels Tour of Marlborough and Nelson with Elizabeth Knox, Vincent O'Sullivan, Catherine Chidgey, Briar Grace Smith and Lydia Wevers – February.
2001	Words On Wheels Tour of Northland with Damien Wilkins, Carl Nixon, Kate Camp, Tina Shaw and Eirlys Hunter - February.
2003	Panel Member for “It’s Not as Easy As It Looks” discussion on children’s literature at University of Canterbury Symposium.
2004	Silvia Ashton Warner Fellowship Lecture, Auckland University, Education Faculty - September. (Published as “It’s Not As Easy As It Looks Part 2 - Auckland University 2005)
2005	Featured Speaker Reading Association Conference, Dunedin - 3rd September.

Texts of Lectures

MAKING BOOKS THAT MATTER

PUTTING IT TOGETHER

KIAORA PROFESSOR COLE

CINDERELLA IN AUCKLAND

Literary Activities

1990s	Served as Assessor for many years on the Creative NZ Literature Grants Committee Assessment Panel.
1992	Traveled as "International Expert and Picture book Artist", for Training Programmes in Beijing and Shanghai, China - organized by the Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO for the PAC (Publishers' Association of China).
1992	Member of the Children's Literature Grants committee of the NZ Arts Council to allocate grants. Meeting in Wellington - November.
1993	Judge for the New Zealand Aim Children's Book Awards.
1993	Arts Council Grant, International Cultural Exchange Scheme to the USA.
1994	Designed 12 covers for a Pre-school magazine for Chinese children, published by the Shanghai Children and Juvenile Publishing House.
1994	December 4th to January 5th - Promotional trip to Boston, New York. Two lectures at Rhode Island School of Design.
1995	Designed the poster for the First Christchurch Book Festival.
1996	Guest lecturer at the Centre School of Design, Pasadena, California - 13th February.
1996	Guest lecturer in Drawing and Picture book Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA - February – June.
1997	Author of a module on Writing and Illustrating for Children for the National Diploma of Children's Literature- Department of Extension Studies, College of Education, Christchurch.
1997	Creative New Zealand Project Grant to work full-time for 8 months of 1998.
1997	Travelled as "International Expert and Picturebook Artist", in Training Programmes in Jakata, Indonesia - organized by the Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO.
1998	Designed poster for Canterbury Opera's September production of Eugene Onegin.
1998	Visited China in July/August at the invitation of the NZ China Friendship Society.
2002	Guest Judge for the Noma Concours International Competition for Children’s Picture Book Art in Tokyo, Japan - December.
2002	Smash Palace Art and Science Collaboration Grant with the HIT Lab, Canterbury University 2002 to produce the world’s first 3-dimensional animated picture book.
2000-04	Member of The Press Ch Ch Writers’ Festival Trust.
2004	Creative New Zealand Project Grant to work full-time for 12 months.
2005	Assessor for the Smash Palace Art and Science Collaboration Initiative funded by MORST and Creative NZ.
2006	Member of Te Tai Tamariki / Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Literature Charitable Trust.
2006	Lecturer at Autumn Art School, Wanaka – April.