Garry Currin

Born in Wanganui, New Zealand (1952), Garry Currin has been exhibiting his work since 1976.  He  was a finalist in the Wallace Visa Gold Award in 1999. He has been a finalist in the James Wallace Awards ten times since 1995, in addition to winning the ‘people's choice' vote in 2004. In 2008 Currin won the grand prize in the Team McMillan 'Where Brush Meets Bonnet' BMW Art Award and in 2011 a merit in the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award. He is represented by Milford Galleries and has pieces in many collections throughout Australasia.

He paints as if mixing rare elixirs with rancid oils. He's a lyricist in paint, coaxing moody landscapes out of tangled streaks and veils of colour. He's a quester in search of lost time, remembering things past: the fall of shadow at a certain time of day, the spiritualised sunburst, the cloud-splitting vista at dusk.

(David Eggleton, ‘Garry Currin The Painter as Salvage Artist', Art NZ No. 94, Autumn 2000)

Landscape without Moses 

oil on canvas, 2005 (private collection)

Landscape without Moses

This Day That Hour 

oil on canvas, 2008

This Day That Hour

This Day That Hour (detail)

This Day That Hour (detail)

Takemitsu's Garden 

oil on canvas, 2010

Takemitsu's Garden

Takemitsu's Garden (detail)

Takemitsu's Garden (detail)

Various Distances Apart, Kaipara 

oil on canvas, 2010 (private collection)

Various Distances Apart, Kaipara

Various Distances Apart, Kaipara (detail)

Various Distances Apart, Kaipara (detail)

Fire at Ephesus I 

oil on canvas, 2010 (private collection)

Fire at Ephesus I

Fire at Ephesus I (detail)

Meditation on Orpheus III  
oil on canvas, 2010 (private collection)

Meditation on Orpheus III

Meditation on Orpheus III (detail)

Voices of Earth 

oil on canvas, 2012 (private collection)

Voices of Earth

Voices of Earth (detail)

Salvage III 
oil on tin, 2012 (private collection)

Salvage III

Salvage IV 

oil on tin, 2012 

Salvage IV

Salvage IV (detail)