Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter clarity of the artist’s final phase, but before these qualities could blossom there was an initial impulse, born of the liberated touch of the late nineteenth century. The freedom to […]
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Robin White
Robin White (Ngãti Awa) first came to prominence in the 1970s with her distinctive figurative representations of the landscapes and people of New Zealand. The clarity and figurative concentration of her paintings from this period, such as 1974’s Fish and Chips Maketu, translate the local specificity of an apparently mundane subject into something both talismanic […]
Sui I Moana: Reaching Across the Ocean
Tales of migration and connection across the Pacific speak of cultural continuity and change.
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