Rebecca Priestley In Conversation with Nina Dyer

For this talk, Rebecca Priestley, author of Mad on Radium (2012) and co-curator of ‘A way through’: Colin McCahon’s Gate III, Nina Dyer dig deeper to unravel Colin McCahon's nuclear concerns.

Priestley’s 2012 book focuses in part on McCahon's brother, physicist Jim McCahon. In the context of Colin McCahon’s mammoth painting Gate III, Priestley and Dyer will discuss the shared anti-nuclear positions of the painter and his nuclear physicist brother at a time when many New Zealanders feared nuclear war could reach our shores.

This event is part of Summer Sessions, a series of Thursday evening talks featuring speakers from a range of fields. Each of the talks expands key aspects of the suite of exhibitions that make up "Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi at Twenty", which continue through 22 March.

Image: Operation Crossroads nuclear test by United States military, Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, 25 July 1946