Art for Life's Sake
On Friday after attending our daughter’s graduation in Auckland we went to the Gordon Walters: New Vision exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. This has been put on as a partnership project between the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki with support from the Walters Estate. For those who don’t know who Gordon Walters is, this is the official blurb from the website [i] “Gordon Walters is one of New Zealand’s most influential modern artists. Across six decades he explored the potential of a few simple geometric elements with a singular focus, creating works of exactitude and refinement. Gordon Walters: New Vision is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s complete body of work and draws on paintings from major public and private collections across New Zealand. The exhibition provides an in-depth look into the history of Walters’ development, and reveals the different art forms which fuelled his vision and inspired the creati...