Robin White, 'Kam aki iri? Aren't you coming? From the series: Sainimele goes fishing' - Print Matariki

Robin White, 'Kam aki iri? Aren't you coming? From the series: Sainimele goes fishing' - Print MatarikiRobin Whites hard edged paintings of rural New Zealand and its people are comparable with Don Binneys and Michael Smithers work, acknowledging their origins in the Regionalist movement paintings of the mid 20th century and the influence of artists such as Rita Angus. White graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts (University of Auckland, New Zealand) in 1968 and quickly established a reputation with paintings of well known culture heroes such as

Learning about the natural world

— Mark Stocker

when Robin White

Teresia Teaiwa and Claudia Orange

and researches Samoan traditional tattooing and the contemporary practice of this ritual

In mid-winter

From the 50’s her work became increasingly abstract and generalised with rolling hills formed with geometric lines reinforcing ideas about the relationship between infrastructure and the land

Anne Kirker (1993) commented that ‘Frances Hodgkins’ most impressive quality was this ability to recharge her artistic vocabulary

and island nations of the wider Moana

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