A Scottish Hand in the South Island The roots of John Douglas Perrett’s practice lie in the classrooms of the Glasgow School of Arts, where he studied during the 1870s. He carried those academic foundations across the ocean, arriving in Dunedin from Scotland in 1886. Upon landing in New Zealand, he did not merely observe the landscape; he helped build the local art scene by establishing a studio alongside Girolamo Nerli and L. W. Wilso…