Rhona Haszard: an experimental, expatriate artist

17 June - 7 August 2005
William A. Sutton Gallery

Bridge on the Avon c.1920 Rhona Haszard Anderson Park Art Gallery, Invercargill

A rare chance to experience the remarkable paintings and controversial life of the talented bohemian artist Rhona Haszard.

Rhona Haszard, an exhibition of approximately 40 works, traces the development of this outstanding New Zealander from her early beginnings at art school, through her style-changing discoveries overseas, to her experimental prints and mature monumental canvases. The show offers fresh insights into the progressive and innovative nature of Rhona's oeuvre.

Her work is presented in the context of paintings and prints by husbands Ronald McKenzie and Leslie Greener, illuminating relationships of subject matter and style. This exhibition celebrates a woman whose work was outstanding in its time, both in terms of its international recognition, and its important influence on the development of early New Zealand modernism.

In association with the Hocken Library, Unitec and Creative New Zealand