Lorraine Webb becomes a UCOL Icon

Thursday 10 February

Head of Painting at Whanganui UCOL’s Quay School of the Arts, Lorraine Webb, has been appointed as an Icon, UCOL’s highest academic honour.

Her appointment as one of two new UCOL Icons brings to 11 the number of UCOL academics with ICON status.

Icon appointments are made to academic staff members who have achieved sustained distinction and excellence in their fields of expertise.

Eleven staff members have also been promoted to the level of Expert, having shown significant national / international recognition within their industry or profession.

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Deputy Chief Executive Bonnie Dewart says Icons exemplify the high quality of teaching at UCOL and the value placed on community and industry recognition. “These excellent academics are role models and mentors for other academic staff, and an inspiration to our students.”

Lorraine Webb is Head of Painting at the Quay School of the Arts and teaches painting in the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting, a Diploma of Fine Art with Honours in Printmaking, and a Lecturer Training Certificate.

Lorraine has taught at Whanganui UCOL and Wanganui Polytechnic since 1986. She was instrumental in the establishment of the BFA programme at Whanganui, co-developing the Diploma of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts.

She was invited for a residency at the CAMAC Contemporary Art Centre in France, has won the William Hodges Fellowship, the Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award and was Wallace Art Award finalist in 2005. More recently, she won the Zinni Douglas Merit Award at the Walker & Hall Art Awards and was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards. She has exhibited in France, Australia and New Zealand.

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