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Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection

Dried Blood v2

Don Driver, Dried Blood (1982). Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1983

Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection

Where

Waikato Museum of Art & History
When

23 September 2000 - 5 November 2000

Curated by William McAloon, Home and Away was a major exhibition which dealt with themes including Signs/place/indigeneity, Abstraction/expression/transcendence, Material/signs.

The exhibition included works by 48 artists from New Zealand and Australia. A major catalogue accompanied the exhibition which featured a rare interview with Chartwell founder, Robert Gardiner.

The exhibition, which was first presented at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, toured to City Gallery Wellington, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Manawatu Art Gallery and the Waikato Museum of Art & History.

Discover the works featured in Home and Away at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki here.