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Exhibition Catalogue
Nigel Brown - Broadly Speaking - Selected Paintings 1982-2025
Exhibition catalogue, 200 x 180 mm, 69 pages, full colour, published by Milford Galleries
Featuring 52 artworks, texts by Fiona Farrell, Glenn Colquhoun and David Craig
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Exhibition Works
Guitarist's Mountain (2011)
Friend and Foe (1984)
Black Dog (2017)
We Want the Birds Back (2009/10)
Backfoot Trivial: Antarctica (1998)
Say What Yer Say (2004)
Optimism (2014)
Imagination Gets You Into Trouble (2014)
Life Cycle Meeting Your Other (2004)
A Modest History of Your Life (2003)
The Plumber's Shop (2003)
Second Hand Shop (2003)
Hard Rain Triptych (2006)
Let Time Be Still No. 2 (2006)
Joy, Happiness, Luck (2005)
Hanly Song (2004/12)
She'll Be Left (2002)
Nature Cruel (2005)
Mrs Ellen Pink and White (2012)
Judith and Holofernes (with Street View) (1982)
Judith and Holofernes (1982)
Madonna Mountain (2007/08)
Te Rauparaha (2010)
Māori Women with Canoe (1996)
Waitangi (1998)
Hakepa (Wake 'Em Up) (1998)
Bush Looms in Winter (1999)
Janet Frame Lived Here (1999)
A Conversation Between H. Tuwhare and Amy Bock (1999)
Jackson Bay No. 2 (2004)
Advertising New Zealand (1999)
Pacifica Japonisme (1996)
Angel to Cook (2009)
Hodges at Dusky (2009)
A Few Hundred Years (2011)
Being Here Music (2011)
Blue Reader (2011)
Clairmont Painting (1984)
Reading for Harbour Cone (2017)
Our Institutions (2015/16)
Three Painters (Fomison, Clairmont, Maddox) (2008)
The Trial (2010)
They Are Us (2019)
Bedroom Woman (2019/20)
Environment (2016)
Gold Miner (2024)
Change Anxiety (2018-20)
Listening to Ruru (2023)
Kererū for Richard Nunns (First Version) (2020/22)
A Kererū for Samuel Butler (2017)
Ponga II (2017)
Wings for Kahikatea (2023-25)
Exhibition Text
Nigel Brown ONZM is undoubtedly New Zealand’s most significant narrative artist. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he has combined autobiography, social observation, political commentary, and moral inquiry. His distinctive and readily recognisable visual language resonates with audiences across generations.
Rich in observation, wit, conviction, and humanity, Broadly Speaking is a major survey of Brown’s practice and his vision of a New Zealand identity. Bringing together works from 1982 – 2025 this exhibition affirms his sustained commitment to examining the complexities of contemporary life - where we are now, where we are going, what we believe and value and how we live together.
Presented in partnership with Te Kano Estate.
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