Jacky Bowring

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. In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te ApÃÂrangi.

Academic career

After a BSc (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma and then a PhD in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor in 2013.

Bowring's 2015 book A Field Guide to Melancholy was reviewed in The Guardian.

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.

Bowring has been a part of the public discussion about the rebuilding of Christchurch after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

She was awarded the inaugural MichÃÂ¨le Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TÃÂmaki for her essay "Art Therapy".

In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te ApÃÂrangi, for her "innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture".

Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Tastes in tension: form, function, and meaning in New ZealandÃ¢ÂÂs farmed landscapes." Landscape and Urban Planning 57, no. 3-4 (2001): 177Ã¢ÂÂ196.
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): 54Ã¢ÂÂ66.
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): 1695Ã¢ÂÂ1710.
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): 57Ã¢ÂÂ73.