Liz Stringer Intern and PhD candidate at Harvard University, Paul Johnston, will be speaking to his exhibition Portraits of Power / Portraits as Power, at the opening on 17 December.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Take an online tour of the exhibition with guest curator Maria Brown
Image: Dr Bronwyn Labrum is the Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Image: Drinking Couple: Fraser Analysing my Words, 1977, Oil on board,The University of Auckland Art Collection.
Image: Margaret Tolland: Artist, Illustrator and Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Colliagte
The time that John Walsh created his 20-metre-long mural was a period of intense creativity and Māori renaissance in New Zealand. What memories, issues, controversies and supports did creatives from this time have to work through?
Join us for this fascinating hour of talk between a group of people who were there at the creative coal face in 1980.
Angus Trumble, judge of the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award, talks with winner Logan Moffat about the Adam, art, process and art school.
