This exhibition is now closed
This is an exhibition of photographs by Bill Culbert who studied at the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. In 1957 he won a Travelling Fellowship to the Royal College of Art in London and continues to work in Britain where he has established a strong reputation for his works utilising light sources. This exhibition is in the form of photographs in this theme and made by Bill Culbert largely in the Provence region of France and was arranged in conjunction with Bill Main of Exposures Gallery, Wellington.
('Bill Culbert', Bulletin, No.52, July/August 1987, p.5)
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Date:
6 August – 30 August 1987 -
Location:
Robert McDougall Art Gallery - main gallery -
Exhibition number:
389
Related
Bulletin 52
July/August 1987
Contents include:
Death of Colin McCahon
Graham Bennett exhibition
Bill Culbert exhibition
British architectural books exhibition
Sue Cooke exhibition
Commentary
Raising a Glass
Bill Culbert died aged 84 on 28 March this year at his home in the Vaucluse region of Provence. Built from dilapidated farm buildings on a small hilltop at a deserted hamlet called Croagnes, it’s a home that he and his wife Pip began to establish in 1961. Then, the region was a sparsely populated economic backwater – the Culberts bought the hilltop buildings for just £100. In the valleys and on the surrounding slopes were a few small vineyards and farms. A 1962 painting, Gerard Going to Work, shows their neighbour, the farmer Felix Gerard, trudging off down the stony hillside wearing a wide- brimmed hat like the one worn by Vincent van Gogh at Arles.