As part of the launch of Douglas MacDiarmid’s biography Colours of a Life, we were delighted to appear on Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning show in conversation with Noelle McCarthy.

Listen to the interview from RNZ Saturday Morning, 11:09 am on 14 July 2018:

About the author

Anna Cahill is a Auckland-born writer based in Brisbane. She has just published a biography of one of New Zealand’s most well-known expatriate artists, Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid, called Colours of a Life. MacDiarmid, who left New Zealand as a young man to embrace the culture of Europe, was a friend of other creative countrypeople of his generation including Rita Angus, Charles Brasch, Allen and Betty Curnow, Theo Schoon, Frank Sargeson and James Weir. At the age of 96 MacDiarmid still lives in Montmatre, Paris. Colours of a Life was launched at the NZ Portrait Gallery on July 12, with an exhibition of MacDiarmid works from public and private collections on display until September 23.

This author bio was originally published on Radio New Zealand’s website.

Colours of a Life – the life and times of Douglas MacDiarmid by Anna Cahill (2018) is available online here. Purchase a copy in person from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington, Jonathan Grant Gallery in Auckland, or from all good bookstores across New Zealand. Published by Mary Egan Publishing (July 2018).