A series of articles by Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery (CNZARD) staff on individual works in the collection, published in the University's fortnightly newsletter UniNews.
The recurring watery forms of Luise Fong’s paintings can be related back to an early childhood experience of almost drowning, a memory she associates with a blissful suspension in time and space.
The mural on the Western side of the Science Building on Princes Street may be Alberto Garcia Alvarez’s most visible work in New Zealand but, when he completed it in 1980, he was no stranger to working at such scale.
Named after Séraphine Louis (1864-1962), a French naïve painter born a century earlier whose richly fantasised works were inspired by her religious faith, Séraphine Pick was destined to make art.