Exhibitions
Events
On display
Richard Killeen on Walters
Gordon Walters Airborne c.1955. Gouache on paper. Collection of Dr Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Max Gimblett. Courtesy of the Gordon Walters Estate
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Celebrated for his iconic ‘cut outs’, artist Richard Killeen – like Gordon Walters – has had a profound impact on visual culture in New Zealand.
In this talk Killeen touches on meeting Walters in the early 1970s, and the effect of their long friendship on their respective practices. Not to be missed.
Related
Exhibition
Gordon Walters: New Vision
17 March 2019
Remembered especially for his Koru or Pītau series, Gordon Walters’s explorations into modernist abstract painting are invested with a distinctly South Pacific energy.
Commentary
Gordon Walters
Te Waipounamu the South Island is crisscrossed by hundreds of traditional mahinga kai, or food-gathering, routes. Used by Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe and Kāi Tahu people over centuries, these routes provided access to the best destinations to harvest food, as well as facilitating the transport of pounamu from the Arahura through Nōti Raukura (Browning’s Pass) across Ka Tiritiri o te Moana (the Southern Alps) to Tuahiwi, north of Christchurch.