Denys Watkins: Dynamo Hum
The exhibition features a selection of key paintings by Denys Watkins – one of New Zealand’s outstanding visual artists.
‘No Ordinary Sun’ Denys Watkins
03.08.18
16.09.18
The exhibition features a selection of key paintings by Denys Watkins - one of New Zealand’s outstanding visual artists.
The exhibition is 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 will be 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. The book will be available for sale at the gallery.
The Artist
Denys Watkins studied at the School of Design, Wellington Polytechnic from 1962-64; Central School of Art, London in 1967; and the Royal College of Art, London from 1968-70. He received a British Council Scholarship in 1968/9; the South Pacfic Travelling Arts Scholarship in 1978; and the Auckland Savings Bank Award in 1978 (Hamilton). Watkins was Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in 1985; was awareded the Transfield Prize in 1986 and the Sanskriti Foundation Residency in 2003.
Exhibition details
Click here to view exhibition floor sheet works list.
Click here to view exhibition floor sheet layout.
