Martin Ball - Echo. Opening Saturday 10 April, Closing Saturday 1 May
Best known for his super-sized, hyper-realistic portraits – frequently of other New Zealand artists – Auckland painter Martin Ball has changed tack and dipped his brush in the past. In this new series, entitled ‘Echo’, he explores one of New Zealand’s most famous landmarks, The Pink and White Terraces, buried in the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886.
As his painter grandfather Thomas Ball did more than a century ago, Martin has drawn on archival and historical photographs of the Terraces by Valentine Blomfield to resurrect this natural wonder - a site that continues to haunt the national psyche.
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