Media release

Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2013

The New Zealand Herald celebrates 150 years with special edition Dick Frizzell artwork

The New Zealand Herald celebrates its 150th birthday today with a collector’s edition featuring Dick Frizzell images of five inspirational Kiwis on its wraparound cover.

The newspaper commissioned the acclaimed NZ artist to create gouache paintings of the five icons – Sir Edmund Hillary, Dame Whina Cooper, Ernest Rutherford, Kate Sheppard and All Black captain, Richie McCaw.

Frizzell says he is excited to be part of a project that enables him to capture the essence of some of the greatest Kiwis across the decades.

“It’s wonderful to be able to celebrate the significant milestone with the team at the Herald, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the creative journey.

“The New Zealanders chosen for the 150th birthday cover have each achieved greatness in their unique fields in the past 150 years and have evoked pride throughout this nation.

“To be able to paint them in my own unique way has been both a privilege and an honour,” he says.

New Zealand Herald’s Editor, Shayne Currie, says today’s reporting team had the same goals as the newspaper’s original founders – to deliver top quality journalism, breaking game-changing stories on a daily basis.

“We have a very proud heritage and reputation for quality writing, and breaking stories that matter. We’re not only here to make a difference, for the better, for our readers’ lives, but also to celebrate all that is good about New Zealand and New Zealanders.

“It’s only fitting we celebrate our birthday with those who have made us proud as Kiwis,” he says.

“Today’s print edition includes a 108-page magazine in which we name our New Zealanders of the Year for each of the past 150 years.

“And we are also looking forward. On Thursday, we publish our first Future NZ magazine, in which we analyse and debate the New Zealand of tomorrow - family life, work-life balance, the economy, politics, our health and wellbeing, and what our cities will look like.

“These specials, each with additional online content, epitomise the Herald’s role to lead debate and to get us thinking about issues and topics of importance to society,” adds Currie.

Art to be auctioned for charity

For those keen on capturing a piece of New Zealand Herald history – the five original gouache paintings will be available at auction on Tuesday, 10th December via Art+Object. 

In addition 150 special edition prints, signed by Dick Frizzell, will be sold on GrabOne from 13th November.

Proceeds from both the auction and the GrabOne sale will be donated to Starship Children's Hospital. 

Visit nzherald.co.nz/auction for more details and to make sure you secure your part of Kiwi history.

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