Curated from the Gallery’s permanent collection, ‘Black’ gathers together works in which colour is largely absent and black predominates. The exhibition provides an opportunity to showcase recent acquisitions, as well as a selection of works that have not been exhibited for some time. ‘Black’ features paintings, etchings, woodcuts, photographs and sculpture by a wide variety of artists. Notably Ralph Hotere, but also other national and international artists including Neil Frazer, Cliff Whiting, Adrienne Martyn, Michael Smither and Grahame Sydney. It also includes our most recent gift to the collection, a caricature of New Zealand composer Frederick Page by Juliet Peter.

 

“I fell in love with black; it contained all colour.

It wasn’t a negation of colour…

Black is the most aristocratic colour of all… 

You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.”

- Louise Nevelson