Peter Alsop
PETER ALSOP is a senior executive who has worked across the public and private sectors. He is a keen collector of New Zealand art, with particular interests in tourism publicity, hand-coloured photography and mid-century New Zealand landscape paintings - interests that have led him to pursue publications as a spare time passion. Peter has authored and co-authored several books, including Marcus King: Painting New Zealand for the World (2015), NZ Post Book Award finalists Promoting Prosperity:...See more
PETER ALSOP is a senior executive who has worked across the public and private sectors. He is a keen collector of New Zealand art, with particular interests in tourism publicity, hand-coloured photography and mid-century New Zealand landscape paintings - interests that have led him to pursue publications as a spare time passion. Peter has authored and co-authored several books, including Marcus King: Painting New Zealand for the World (2015), NZ Post Book Award finalists Promoting Prosperity: The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising (2013) and Selling the Dream: The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism (2012). Selling the Dream was also the basis of the eponymous exhibition developed in partnership with the Canterbury Museum. Peter has also written numerous articles on his published subject matter that have appeared in multiple publications and online media. See less
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