Peter Robinson

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.

Often bitterly ironic or aggressively humorous Peter Robinson’s works of the 1990s have emerged as iconic in contemporary New Zealand art. Around this time questions regarding the efficacy of centralised policy for biculturalism flourished in New Zealand and fittingly Robinson’s works of this period address interracial politics and the commercial consumerism of cultural identity.