Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand's best-known painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1960 to 1963 and then had a long career in advertising. Alongside his career as a painter, Frizzell is also the highly sought-after designer of a range of products from toys to wine. He is the author of Dick Frizzell: The painter (Random House, 2009), It's All About the Image (Random House, 2011), Me, According to the History of Art (Massey University Press, 2020), The Sun Is a Star (Massey University Press, 2021) and The Dance of the Hooligans (David