Exhibitions

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1965 Won National Competition for Air New Zealand poster design.
1966 Attended Wellington Polytechnic School of Design (4 year course).
1969 Completed Diploma course at Wellington Polytechnic School of Design with Honours.
1969 (June) All work done up to that time lost in house fire in Wellington. Spent 5 months recovering from burns.
1969 “Self Portrait Bust With Tendrils”. First painting done after fire.
1970 Completed “Urban Sprawl”, finalist in that year’s Benson and Hedges Art Award.
1970 NZ Young Contemporaries Exhibition.
1971 Began work on “Maybe Tomorrow”.
Began 2 years work on illustrations for “New Zealand’s Heritage; The Making of
A Nation” magazine.
1974 Completed “Maybe Tomorrow” entered and won 1974 Benson and Hedges Art Award
Work is bought by Dunedin Public Art Gallery, for NZ record price.
1975 Group Exhibition for opening of Barrington Art Gallery, Auckland
“Something To Hide” bought by Todd Motors Collection, Wellington
1975 Group show Bett Duncan Gallery, Wellington
1976 Works on large Seascapes
1976 Group Exhibition Rotorua “Sea Swirl” bought by National Art Gallery, now Te Papa Wellington.
1977 Works on Seascapes.
1980 Works on Tapestry and Flower Paintings
1981 Group show John Leach Gallery Auckland. Limited Edition Prints of “I Remember” made by John Leach Gallery.
1982-4 Experiments with many new forms. “Bug Art”paintings being the only works kept but never shown.
1984 “From The Real World”. A Trusteebank Southland Art Foundation Exhibition. Southland Museum and Art Gallery bought “Morning Tide”.
1987-89 Worked on the “Immigrants” series.
1989 (May) Series exhibited at RKS Art Auckland.
1989-90 Works on Orchids Washed on Beach Series.
1990 Works on large paintings of Ebony Elephants Washed Up on Beach.
1990 Group show Charlotte H. Gallery, Auckland.
1991 Group show Yanna Lund Gallery, Wellington.
1991-92 Worked and exhibited in Amsterdam “Apunto Gallery” Amsterdam Work in Art Fairs included in Amsterdam and Brussels.
1992 Group Exhibition “Apunto Gallery” Amsterdam. “ New Real Exhibition” with Wainer Vaccari and Jan Worst.
1992 Begins work on the “Hounds” and new tapestry work.
1993 Warwick Brown Gallery “Painted Tapestries” Auckland.
1993-94 Christchurch City Art Gallery, Robert McDougall
“Real Vision Exhibition” “The Immigrant.”
1996 Group Exhibition “NZ Real”, Milford Gallery, Dunedin.
One man show, Milford Gallery, Dunedin “Painted Tapestries.”
Works with International Art Centre, Auckland.
1997 Group Exhibition “Modern NZ Art” Milford Gallery, Dunedin.
One man show Dobson Bashford Gallery, Christchurch.
1998 One man show Portfolio Gallery, Auckland.
Group Exhibition Monterey Gallery, Auckland.
1999 One man show International Art Centre, Auckland
1999 Group Exhibition Monterey Gallery Auckland.
Painted ceiling Fresco (Baroque Style) at Monterey Gallery, Auckland.
2000 Opened The Spiral Gallery with retrospective show 1969-2000
Studio Gallery in Queen Street, Auckland.
Gave Art Classes and painted NZ Landscapes.
2001 Two paintings accepted for THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION, LONDON.
“Regeneration” which was hung and “Silent Echoes”.
2001 Christchurch City Art gallery Robert McDougall, “Images of Home and Garden”
“Maybe Tomorrow”.
2002-04 Pankhurst Gallery in Masterton, Directors; Douglas and Allisson Whitcombe.
2002 Anderton Park Gallery, Southland bought “Silent Echoes” for permanent collection.
2002-3 Joint Exhibitions in Spiral Gallery with Brent Wong, Mark Cross and Tom Mutch.
2002-05 Handmade Silkscreen Prints. Bought by NZ Parliament Wellington and Southland Museum.
2004 Commission for 16 Paintings for The Fox Glacier Hotel, Westland
2005 Opened The Real Gallery Newmarket, Auckland with Brent Wong.
Joint Exhibition with Brent Wong, Mark Cross, Craig Primrose, Graham Downs,
David Woodings and Jillian Palmer.
2006 First of Maori paintings “About Time”, “Our Time”, “Transition”, “The Last Stand”,
taking as inspiration the beautiful carvings of the NZ Maori and depicting them in typical NZ settings.
2007 Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin “Spiritual Journeys.” Solo Exhibition of Maori Paintings.
Opened Pankhurst Studio Gallery in Parnell, Auckland. Exhibitions twice a year.
2008 First of the giclee art prints and cards.
2008-12 Chosen for NZ Artfind Calendar 5 consecutive years.
2009 Group Exhibition of opening of Aesthete Gallery, Hamilton.
Presentation at the Rotorua Museum of Art and History.
Hastings City Art Gallery Group Exhibition “Mind Games, Surrealism in Aotearoa”.
2009-11 “Beloved Exhibition” Dunedin Public Art gallery “Maybe Tomorrow.”
2010 Paintings of Moeraki Boulders, Kotuku Birds and first of European Immigrant artifacts and Maori carvings on the beach.
2010 Limited Edition Giclee Prints of ”Returning Heroes”,
“Tuturu Aotearoa”, “Frosty Morning”, and the iconic “Spiritual Journey”.

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Exhibitions