Jacky Bowring | |
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Alma mater | Lincoln University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | landscape architecture |
Institutions | Lincoln University |
Thesis | |
Website | http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/About-Lincoln/Staff-Profiles/?StaffID=Bowring%20Jacky |
Jacky Bowring (sometimes Jacqueline) is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic specialising in memories and memorials. She is currently a full professor at Lincoln University.[1]
After a BSc (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma[2] and then a PhD[3] in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor.[1]
Bowring's 2015 book A Field Guide to Melancholy was reviewed in The Guardian.[4]
In 2017, Bowring was one of five winners in an LA+Journal competition to design an island, for which she took inspiration from Howland Island.[5][6][7]
Bowring has been a part of the public discussion about the rebuilding of Christchurch after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.[8][9][10]
She was awarded the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for her essay "Art Therapy".[11]