Lindsay Hazley QSM

Most people recognise Lindsay as the Tuatara expert from the Invercargill Museum.

Lindsay is also a very accomplised Artist and I am very proud to be displaying a selection of Lindsays works in my gallery.

Now retired, Lindsay is painting full time

Self taught artist, starting at 15 years of age.

Southland Museum and Art Galley Art officer and tuatara curator. (52 Years)

Past Member and Artist member of Southland Art Society since 1970s

Winner of Southland Young Contemporaries exhibition 1979.

Exhibited in Art Society exhibitions.

Joint exhibition with five other artist SMAG (5 Blooks)

Benson and Hedges finalist 1980s

Telecom art award finalist for two years and winner 1999

Have work represented in Southland Museum and Art Gallery collection.

I paint in oils and have sold mostly in NZ but have had some work go over sees. (US)

Now retired and enjoying It!

A little bit about Lindsay Hazley QSM

Lindsay was the main handler of Invercargill's celebrity tuatara Henry after a friendship dating back more than five decades.

Lindsay Hazley met Henry back in 1970, then a schoolboy volunteering at Southland Museum, where the reptile lived.

Henry would go on to become the most famous of the museum's 70 tuatara, becoming a first-time father in 2009 when he was already more than 100 years old.

"The tuatara had never bred in captivity, and I wanted to breed the hell out of these guys," Hazley told RNZ on Friday.

His association with the native reptile began way back in the 1960s. Hazley would wag school to help out at the museum, and in 1972 they hired him full-time.