Reluctant Melancholia is a series of three concurrent exhibitions celebrating the career of the Antony Warnes and giving recognition to an artist with a history of more than 50 years' painting.
Antony is a prolific self-taught artist practising since 1965 when he began selling works at the well known local Harrisons Gallery Tauranga.
Antony Warnes is a contradictory character, enigmatic, mysterious and sometime reclusive yet flamboyant and exuberant in equal measures.
The artist is storyteller, a cultural identity, living and breathing his passion and talent for art in the Bay of Plenty.
This exhibition proudly hosted by the Incubator Creative Hub celebrates Antony's achievements, an exciting and rare opportunity to view and purchase current works, to enjoy a tapestry of retrospective pieces that span Antony's career and even a once in a lifetime opportunity to dine with the artist in a series of entertaining dinner dates.
An event of three parts including: