Grace Joel
Retirement Village
Walk through an assisted-living apartment
CARE WHEN YOU NEED IT
Care is not an ‘add on’ at a Ryman village, it is built into the fabric of our villages from the very beginning. It’s comforting for couples and friends to know they can still be near each other even if their health needs are different.
Grace Joel care centre offers care options including resthome, and hospital care. Like all aspects of our villages, we constantly look for ways to improve both the care we provide and the innovation behind it. Care is customised using our myRyman care app and residents love the food in our seasonal Delicious menu, which is prepared fresh on site by village chefs.
Grace Joel is one of over 91 percent of Ryman villages that have been awarded 4-year certification by the Ministry of Health. It’s recognised as the ‘gold star’ standard in care.
That’s why each Ryman village is named after a Kiwi or Aussie trailblazer. Anthony Wilding, Lady Diana Isaac, Evelyn Page to name a few. They lived with passion and purpose, they pushed further, they went beyond the ordinary. That’s exactly what we strive to do every day at Ryman. To pioneer a new way of living, for a new retirement generation.
Grace Joel (1865–1924)
Through her painting, Dunedin born expat artist Grace Joel affirmed an artistic vision distinct from her contemporaries and the trends of the time. With determination and passion, she committed her professional career to portraiture and the figure.
Following secondary and tertiary art education in Dunedin, Joel studied fine arts at the National Gallery School in Melbourne in 1888-89 and again in 1891-94. She settled in Dunedin and produced work, exhibited, taught, and contributed heavily to the local art community. In 1899 Joel left for Europe where she established her artistic reputation, exhibited to acclaim in London and Paris, and spent the remainder of her career and life.
Relentless in her artistic pursuit, Joel lived life on her terms and pursued an innovative painting style. Despite her modest professional success and being relatively unknown today, Joel granted a £500 scholarship for nude painting to the National Gallery School she had attended in Melbourne.
Joel L. Schiff wrote An Impressionist Portrait in 2014. A private person, there were few details recorded about Joel’s life and personal views.
