Sandy Adsett: Toi Koru

The Māori master of colour and kowhaiwhai, Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Dr Sandy Adsett. Sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks tAdsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today.

The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, as well as a new series of paintings created especially for the exhibition.

Born in 1939 on the family farm in Raupunga, a small Kahungunu (Ngāti Pahauwera) Māori community just north of Wairoa on the East Coast of the North Island, Adsett has had a hugely successful international career as an artist, but surprisingly he has only ever had two solo exhibitions of his own. Toi Koru will be his third solo exhibition and his first major retrospective survey.

Please note Sunday opening hours: 11am-4:30pm