Rita Angus: New Zealand ModernistRita Angus: He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa
Selected works from Te Papa.
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Ngā kōwhiringa mahi nō Te Papa.
Rita Angus created a distinctive vision of a new, modern New Zealand and is one of New Zealand’s most iconic artists. This exhibition brings together a rich collection of 20 of her oil paintings.
Over the course of her life, she produced a remarkable body of paintings. A committed feminist and a pacifist, Angus’s work was deeply entwined with her view of the world. In her portraits and landscape paintings, she created a unique image of 20th-century Aotearoa.
This exhibition brings together 20 of Rita Angus’s oil paintings, from both Te Papa’s own collection and from the Rita Angus Estate Collection, which has been on loan to Te Papa since 1972.
Audio descriptions
Listen to audio descriptions created for this tour.
Tour schedule
Hocken Gallery, Dunedin
12 Oct – 7 Dec 2024
MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier
29 Jun – 25 Aug 2024
Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford
27 Apr – 23 Jun 2024
Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim
17 Feb – 14 Apr 2024
Te Manawa, Palmerton North
9 Dec 2023 – 6 Feb 2024
Aratoi, Masterton
30 Sep – 26 Nov 2023
Waikato Museum, Hamilton
22 Jul – 17 Sep 2023
Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
13 May – 9 Jul 2023
Te Uru Waitakere, Auckland
4 Mar – 30 Apr 2023
Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru
17 Dec 2022 – 12 Feb 2023
The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson
8 Oct – 4 Dec 2022
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
21 May – 17 Jul 2022
Hosting enquiries
Jake Yocum, Touring Exhibition Manager
Phone: +64 (0)4 381 7317
Email: touringexhibitions@tepapa.govt.nz
Exhibition highlights
This film celebrates Rita Angus’s artistic practice – diving into her painting Central Otago (1953–56/1969).
