Gordon Walters

Gordon Walters (1919-1995) was a pioneer who is widely recognised and celebrated as one of New Zealand’s most significant modernist artists. Walters’ career spanned over five decades and from 2017-2019 the comprehensive survey exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision was developed and toured in partnership by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

This exhibition celebrates the monochromatic with works by Shane Cotton, Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon, Richard Killeen and Gordon Walters.

New Zealand Light is a group exhibition which celebrates five of New Zealand's most significant modern artists, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere, Shane Cotton, and Peter Robinson. The common thread that runs through their respective practices is their masterful ability to convey reflections of light within a largely monochromatic palette. Shadows rise to the surface or fall back between layers of foreground and background, their shifting nature reflecting equally tumultuous periods of political and social upheaval in New Zealand’s cultural history.

Gow Langsford Gallery starts our 2017 calendar with a largely monochromatic painting exhibition. It includes works by Don Binney, Hugo Koha Lindsay, Richard Lewer, Reuben Paterson, Colin McCahon, Max Gimblett and Gordon Walters.

Collectively, Walters' artworks form one of the most important bodies of work ever produced in New Zealand and his geometric abstractions have become somewhat emblematic of New Zealand art. The exhibition of ten works brings together key elements of his oeuvre, highlights of which are three rarely seen koru paintings. The exhibition runs concurrent to The Walters Prize 2014 exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery.

The Spring Catalogue has become an annual tradition at Gow Langsford Gallery. This year the catalogue exhibition boasts a stellar line up of works. Spring Catalogue 2011 brings together significant works from the local secondary market including paintings by Colin McCahon, Don Binney and Ralph Hotere, works by prominent contemporary international artists including Ai Wei Wei, Damien Hirst; shown alongside works from artists in the gallery stable, including Tony Cragg, Bernar Venet, John Pule, Max Gimblett and Judy Millar.