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Doris Lusk: A Sense of Place
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Join curator Felicity Milburn as she explores the remarkable career of New Zealand painter Doris Lusk (1916–1990) through the works on display in Doris Lusk: Practical Visionary.
Doris Lusk: Practical Visionary is an exhibition of intricate landscapes and imaginative explorations by renowned New Zealand painter Doris Lusk.
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Exhibition
Doris Lusk: Practical Visionary
4 June – 30 October 2016
Intricate landscapes and imaginative explorations by renowned New Zealand painter Doris Lusk.
Artist Profile
Doris Lusk: An Inventive Eye
In the strange, stunned afterlife that ticked slowly by in the first few years following Christchurch’s February 2011 earthquake, a curious note of recognition sounded through the shock and loss. As a massive programme of demolitions relentlessly hollowed out the city, many buildings were incompletely removed and lingered on for months as melancholy remains – stumps abandoned in a forlorn urban forest. Hideous, sculptural, beautiful; they bore compelling resemblance to a body of paintings created in the city more than three decades earlier.
