Anne Noble

Her work includes series of photographs examining Antarctica, her own daughter's mouth, and our relationship with nature.

[3] Writer Sheridan Keith described these works as "a series of images of immense spirituality, serenity and intensity of feeling".

I wanted to magnify the colour, the spontaneity, the life, the fun and play, and all the things that I enjoyed as a mother.

[13] Noble's work has investigated the honeybee and its place in our world, research instigated by her time on a Fulbright fellowship based at Columbia College in Chicago as their international artist in residence.

[14] Writing about these new works, art historian Priscilla Pitts noted: For several years Noble has focused her camera on Antarctica, 'the last great wilderness on earth', intractable despite our efforts to document and understand it, yet fragile and susceptible to our actions elsewhere on the planet.

[18] In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, Noble was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to photography.