Claudia Pond Eyley
Claudia Pond Eyley (born 21 June 1946) is a New Zealand artist and filmmaker. Her works are held in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Also recorded as Claudia Eyley · Claudia Pond-Eyley
Claudia Pond Eyley
- Name
- Claudia Pond Eyley
- Birth Name
- Claudia Pond
- Born
- 21 June 1946
- Birthplace
- Matamata, New Zealand
- Spouse
- Peter Eyley (m. 1968)
- Field
- Painting, documentary film
- Training
- Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- painter · writer · illustrator
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- Elam School of Fine Arts
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Claudia Pond Eyley (born 21 June 1946) is a New Zealand artist and filmmaker. Her works are held in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
Claudia Pond Eyley (born 1946) is a New Zealand illustrator, painter and writer. The illustrator was born in Matamata.
Claudia Pond Eyley studied at Elam School of Fine Arts. The illustrator is active in painting. Works by Claudia Pond Eyley are held at Auckland Art Gallery, Hocken Collections and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Composed from admitted, traceable facts · 01 October 2026
VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Claudia Pond Eyley. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q27924412 · wikipedia · Claudia Pond Eyley
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Claudia Pond Eyley • Birth Name — Claudia Pond • Born — 21 June 1946 • Birthplace — Matamata, New Zealand • Spouse — Peter Eyley (m. 1968) • Field — Painting, documentary film • Training — Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland
Early life
Early life
Claudia Pond Eyley was born in 1946 in Matamata, New Zealand.
Education
Education
Eyley has studied in Montreal, New York, and at the Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts. Eyley was a major figure in Kingsland society circles in the 1970s and 1980s.
Art
Art
She is a founding member of Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms and a member of the Association of Women Artists. She has exhibited widely international and within New Zealand, including: • Guest Artist, N.Z. Society of Sculptors & Painters Show in 1975 • Wellington City Art Gallery in 1985 • Unruly Practices at the Auckland City Art Gallery in 1993 She has completed mural commissions at Stokes Road (1980), Auckland University Arts Commerce (1984), Auckland High Court (1991), and collaborated with Pat Hanly for Flying Colours With Invention, Women's Suffrage Centennial collaborative project at Khartoum Place (1993).
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1946
Claudia Pond Eyley was born on 1 January 1946.
Books
Eyley co-authored the book Helen Clark – Inside Stories with Dan Salmon. She has illustrated three children's books with author Maris O'Rouke: Lillibutt's Big Adventure; Lillibut s Te Araroa Adventure; and Lillibutt's Australian Adventure.
Films
Eyley has directed four films including: • Helen (2013), (co-directed with Dan Salmon) documentary about New Zealand's first elected woman Prime Minister, Helen Clark • Kit & Maynie (2008), documentary about two 90-year-old peace activists who live on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand • No Nukes Is Good Nukes! The Legacy of New Zealand's Grassroots Ant-Nuclear Movement (2007), documentary about New Zealand's Act of Parliament in 1987 which saw New Zealand become a nuclear free nation • Departure and Return -The Final Journey of the Rainbow Warrior (2006), documentary about Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Claudia Pond Eyley”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q27924412: Claudia Pond Eyley
General reference · Wikidata
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Claudia Pond Eyley. collections.tepapa.govt.nz.
- 2.Claudia Pond Eyley. Auckland Art Gallery.
- 3.Pond Eyley, Claudia. findnzartists.org.nz.
- 4.Claudia Pond Eyley: Episode #40. culturalicons.co.nz.
- 5.127–128.
- 6.Artists exhibited with The Group. findnzartists.org.nz.
- 7.The Group 1927 – 1977: an annotated bibliography – Heritage – Christchurch City Libraries. christchurchcitylibraries.com.
- 8.The Group 1975. christchurchartgallery.org.nz.
- 9.Claudia Pond Eyley. www.claudiapondeyley.com.
- 10.Helen Clark: The Road to Power Television NZ On Screen. www.nzonscreen.com.
- 11.Kit & Maynie. Tea, Scones and Nuclear Disarmament. www.kitandmaynie.com.
- 12.Eyley, Claudia Pond. No nukes is good nukes! the Legacy of New Zealand's grassroots anti-nuclear movement / a documentary directed and produced by Claudia Pond Eyley. CPEyley. 2007.
- 13.Eyley, Claudia Pond. Departure and return the final journey of the Rainbow Warrior through the eyes of six women activists / directed and produced by Claudia Pond Eyley. Claudia Pond Eyley. 2006.
- 14.Eyley, Claudia Pond. Helen Clark – Inside Stories. Auckland University Press. 2016. 978-1869408381.
- 15.Maris, O’Rourke. Lillibutt's Big Adventure. Duck Creek Press. 2012. 9781877378584.
- 16.O’Rourke, Maris. Lillibut's Te Araroa Adventure. Duck Creek Press. 2014. 9781877378928.
- 17.Maris, O'Rourke. Lillibutt's Australian Adventure. Duck Creek Press. 2015. 9781927305157.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library
- E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
- Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland
- Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena
- Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury
- Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists McGahey, Kate (2000) Gilt Edge
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Recognition and collections.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Claude Le BaubeIllustrator
- Claude PontiIllustrator
- Claude-Charles BourgonnierIllustrator
- Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth HartertIllustrator
- Claudia RuedaIllustrator
- Claudine LoquenIllustrator
- Claudius SchraudolphIllustrator
- Claus BergenIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Claudia Pond Eyley?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.