Story: Thompson, Pauline Adele

First show

A teenage Pauline Thompson, in a school uniform with SMTC monogrammed on the blazer, stands beside a large painting depicting a group of people in front of some buildings.

Auckland artist Pauline Thompson held her first show in 1959, at the John Court Ltd department store in Auckland. She was just 16, and a student at Seddon Memorial Technical College. 

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Emma-Jean Kelly. 'Thompson, Pauline Adele', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6t15/thompson-pauline-adele (accessed 18 May 2024)