Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The (controversial) intersection of Maori art and modernism in New Zealand


Gordon Walters features alongside other major figures (Rita Angus, Paratene Matchitt, Arnold Manaaki Wilson and Ans Westra amongst others) in the controversial exhibition Split Level View Finder: Theo Schoon and New Zealand Art at the City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition presents Schoon's work as constantly in dialogue or dispute with other cultural forms and artists. Read more...
Image: Gordon Walters, Untitled, 1945, acrylic on board, collection of the Walters Estate