Jacky Bowring Explained

Jacky Bowring
Fields:	landscape architecture
Workplaces:	Lincoln University
Alma Mater:	Lincoln University
Thesis1 Title:	Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
Thesis1 Url:	https://hdl.handle.net/10182/667
Thesis1 Year:	1997
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]

Academic career

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]

Selected works

• Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Tastes in tension: form, function, and meaning in New Zealand’s farmed landscapes." Landscape and Urban Planning 57, no. 3-4 (2001): 177–196.
• Bowring, Jacky. A Field Guide to Melancholy. Oldcastle Books, 2015.
• Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Making a 'mess' in the countryside: Organic farming and the threats to sense of place." Landscape Journal 25, no. 1 (2006): 54–66.
• Vallance, Suzanne, Harvey C. Perkins, Jacky Bowring, and Jennifer E. Dixon. "Almost invisible: Glimpsing the city and its residents in the urban sustainability discourse." Urban Studies 49, no. 8 (2012): 1695–1710.
• Egoz, Shelley, and Jacky Bowring. "Beyond the romantic and naive: the search for a complex ecological aesthetic design language for landscape architecture in New Zealand." Landscape research 29, no. 1 (2004): 57–73.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staff Profiles | Lincoln University . Lincoln.ac.nz . 21 February 2018.
2. Bowring . Jacky . 1989 . Diploma thesis . Painting New Zealand . Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury . 10182/5549 .
3. Bowring . J. . 1997 . Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects . PhD thesis . Lincoln University, New Zealand . 10182/667 .
4. News: Ian Pindar . Review: A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky Bowring | Books . The Guardian . 21 February 2018.
5. Web site: Testado . Justine . How would you design a new island? Check out the winning proposals from the LA+ IMAGINATION ideas competition. Archinect . 30 January 2018 . 21 February 2018.
6. Web site: Dr Jacky Bowring, one of five winners of international design competition | NZ Institute of Landscape Architects . Nzila.co.nz . 21 February 2018.
7. Landscape Architecture Plus . Bowring . Jacqueline . 2018 . The island of lost objects . en . 2376-4171 . 07 . 22–27.
8. News: Christchurch Earthquake Memorial draws on rich tradition of memorials around the world . Stuff.co.nz . 21 February 2018.
9. News: Earthquake memorial 'says nothing about Christchurch' . Stuff.co.nz . 15 May 2015 . 21 February 2018.
10. News: Chch risks becoming a 'soulless city' . Stuff.co.nz . 11 April 2013 . 21 February 2018.
11. Web site: 2021-12-21 . Top honours for multi-talented academic . 2023-05-20 . Lincoln University.