Smither! Michael Smither Works from the Collections

From the Trust Waikato Collection, Barry Hopkins Collection and Waikato Museum’s permanent collection, this is a rare opportunity to view very early works from the 1960s including rarely exhibited working drawings and works we know and love.

Smither’s art career spans over forty-five years, made greater by the fact his career as a composer has been equally as long.

The style we are familiar with is that distinctive crisp and cleanly defined subject matter; so to see some of Smither's process drawings is a rare insight into the mind of the artist.

Image: The Procession, Oil on board, 1965 – Trust Waikato Collection.

Free entry

About the Trust Waikato Art Gallery 

Through the generous contribution of Trust Waikato, Waikato Museum is able to offer this gallery dedicated to exhibiting a rich blend of Trust Waikato artworks and works from the Museum’s own collection.
 
The Trust’s active collection of Waikato relevant artworks and historical documents will often be displayed with some relevance to other museum exhibitions or significant events in the Waikato cultural calendar. Most of the works will have some link to Tainui tangata whenua, the land, the river, representations of the colonial past and the rich history of the Waikato region.
 
Visit the Trust Waikato website here.