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Campbell Smith (playwright)

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Smith served as president of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies between 1965 and 1966, president of the Waikato Society of Arts from 1965 to 1967 and director of the Waikato Art Gallery from 1971.
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Smith was a wood engraver and printmaker, focusing on the life and culture of New Zealand. Subjects including rugby, farming,
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in 1925, Smith was the son of Annie and Syd Smith, a signwriter. He served a trade apprenticeship, and then studied at
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As a playwright, Smith wrote 24 plays, many of which are about notable New Zealanders, including
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Smith was made a life member of the Waikato Society of Arts in 1994. In the
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New Zealand playwright, poet and wood engraver (1925–2015)
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20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights
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MNZM
Masterton
Tairua
MNZM
Masterton
Canterbury University College
Auckland Teachers' Training College
Waihi College
Fairfield College
Hamilton
gum digging
Māori culture
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Waikato Museum
Ettie Rout
Mabel Howard
Frances Hodgkins
2003 Queen's Birthday Honours
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
honorary doctorate
University of Waikato
Tairua







"Hamilton artist Campbell Smith dies"

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