Denys Watkins: Dynamo Hum
17 November – 15 December 2017
The exhibition featured a selection of key paintings by Denys Watkins – one of New Zealand’s outstanding visual artists. The exhibition was the first travelling survey of recent works by Watkins, a practicising artist for nearly fifty years, whose work is featured in public and private collections around the country.
Accompanying the exhibition programme was a new hardcover monograph covering Denys Watkins’s practice over the same time period, featuring writing from leading New Zealand art writers, Allan Smith, Anna Miles, Francis McWhannell, photographs by Sam Hartnett, designed by Jonty Valentine, and printed by Soar.