Dick Frizzell

Richard John Frizzell MNZM (born 1943) is a New Zealand artist known for his pop art paintings and prints.

His work often features Kiwiana iconography combined with motifs from Māori art traditions, such as the tiki and tā moko.

Frizzell's exhibition Tiki in November 1992 at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery aroused controversy for his series of paintings reworking the tiki image to resemble subjects as varied as Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Picasso abstract.

[3] [4] In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Frizzell was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.

His landscapes, often views of rural New Zealand as seen from narrow country roads, have been the subject of several exhibitions, among them Out of Alex, at Dunedin's Milford Gallery in 2019.