O'BRIEN, Gregory, 1961-
And this also is the Point of Saying Goodbye (Drawing)
part of a BA at The University of Auckland,
and published his first illustrations (done to
accompany "Paris", a poem by C.K. Stead and
published by Auckland University Press) in 1984.
After graduation that year, he published his own
poems in literary journals in Australia, including
Meanjin and Scripsi, as well as in Island, Sport
and Landfall in New Zealand. These poems were
brought together with drawings in a single book,
Location of the Least Person, which was
published by Auckland University Press in 1987,
and led to him winning the Frank Sargeson
Fellowship the next year. This award brought
with it residency in the flat above the George
Fraser Gallery, and occasioned his first meeting
with the Hungarian photographer Mari Mahr,
who exhibited there in 1988.
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