Bill Culbert: Groundworks

Fifty years ago Culbert moved from New Zealand to London to study painting, a decade later his investigations brought him to the manipulation of light and shadow – in natural and electrical form – as a restrained and potent language of discovery and metamorphosis.

Groundworks is conceived in dialogue with the artist’s Lightworks exhibition presented at the Gallery a decade ago. Groundworks also premieres three new works for New Zealand audiences, two of which have been created especially for the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.