Francis Pound (1948–2017)

Francis Pound died after a long illness on Sunday 15 October last year. His funeral at St Matthew-in-the-City, with eulogies, remembrances and readings from his brothers and friends, was a most moving occasion. A lot of people came, from many different parts and times of Francis’ life, testimony to his numerous friendships from student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as to his impact and influence as an art historian, visual arts writer, curator and teacher since the mid-1970s.

Francis completed a BFA Hons at Elam in 1969, returned for an MFA in the early 1970s and later wrote a PhD (1991), his subject the cut-outs of Richard Killeen. He tutored in art history at Auckland University in