Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is an artist and author from Wellington, New Zealand. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Massey University, and is Co-Director of Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, a research initiative based at Massey University's Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts. Early life and education Holloway-Smith graduated from Massey University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) in 2006. She completed her PhD at Massey University College of Creative Arts in 2018. Career She describes herself as interested in "internet culture, 3-dimensional printing, open source art, and space colonisation." She edited the book WANTED: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, published in 2018. Advocacy for the Creative Freedom Foundation Holloway-Smith was involved in setting up the organisation Creative Freedom Foundation in 2008. The foundation seeks to "encourage and promote New Zealand artists' views on issues that have the potential to influence their collective creativity" such as copyright law. She was the director of the Creative Freedom Foundation until 2014. In 2009, she presented a petition on behalf of 149 people requesting "that the House of Representatives immediately repeal section 92A of the Copyright Act 1994 (to be inserted by the Copyright