Anne Marie Basquin is a writer and artist based in Leigh near Te Hāwere-a-Maki in Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US and Ōtepoti Dunedin in the South Island of Aotearoa. She moved to the Hauraki Gulf in 2021.
She has a BFA in Printmaking from the Dunedin School of Fine Arts and a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. Her work has been exhibited around Aotearoa and published in the anthologies Strong Words 4, Poto | Short and Hoot!, in the academic journal Junctures, in the photobook whispering bird song, and online in Flash Frontier and The Golden Key.
Qualifications
Master of Creative Writing (Paula Morris), University of Auckland, 2022
PADI Certified Rescue Diver, Dive Otago, 2018
BFA in Printmaking, Dunedin School of Fine Arts (Printmaking), 2006
Awards
Ripiro Beach writer’s residency (one week and stipend), the University of Auckland, 2026.
Exhibition Award for RANGE, Auckland Festival of Photography, 2026.
Commended for ‘Choosing Sides’, Landfall Tauraka annual essay competition, 2023
Highly Commended, Animal Category, Otago Wildlife Photography Competition, 2018
Jocelyn Harris Prize for best essay on a text written by a woman author under exam conditions, University of Otago, 2014
Selected Publications
‘Becoming Animal’, Flash Frontier, He mutunga | Endings, March Issue, 2026, https://flashfrontier.com/march-2026-he-mutunga-endings/
‘Stipes, Blades, Bladders,’ Te Kohuroa Rewilding Initiative Blog, Sept 2025, https://www.tekohuroarewilding.org/stories/annebasquin
‘Choosing Sides’, Strong Words 4, Otago University Press, August 2025, p155-164
‘Private Acts’, Poto! Short, Massey University Press, July 2025, p34-35
‘Date Night’, Hoot!:Words from the Otepoti Writer’s Lab Community, Rivulet Press, 2024, p73-75
‘Mangrove’, Whispering Bird Song, The Handmade Darkroom Sustainable Photography Collective, p18, 2024
‘Farewell to Goat Island Campground’, Goat Island Marine Reserve Blog, July 2024, https://www.goatislandmarinereserve.co.nz/post/farewell-to-goat-island-campground
‘Art and Water Collaboration: Interview’, Junctures, Issue 21: Water, December 2020, p.56-64 (co-author, includes photographs) PDF: https://junctures.org/index.php/junctures/article/view/395
Foreword, Why We Love Our Things, Egan Vlerick and Angela Trolove, Vlerick & Trolove Press, 2016
‘Wasp Heart Humming’, “Peacock Blue” and “Magical Powers”, The Scribbler, Issue X, 2015, p.15-16, 41, 52
‘Jim Talks to the Moon’, The Golden Key, Issue 5: Things that Float, 2014 (online)
‘Luck of Life’, Let's Roar Loudly! Conversations about Art and Feminism, WAO Publishing, 2011, p.20-22
Selected Exhibitions
RANGE, Eyes on Fire Gallery, Auckland, May 29 - June 18, 2026
Women’s Work In(visible), Tuesday Club, Auckland, March 7-10, 2025
Our Oceans, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru, 2020
Prayers for Water, AYU Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin, February 2020 (solo)
Art & Water: Mountains to the Sea, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2019
Otago Wildlife Photography Awards Exhibition, Otago Museum, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2018
Light Terrain, Mou Bar, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2012 (solo)
Let's Roar Loudly, Pop Up Gallery, Lower Stuart, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2011
Otago Wildlife Photography Awards Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Otago Museum, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2010
Site, Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Art, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2006