Whanganui Chronicle
  • Whanganui Chronicle home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Taranaki
  • National Park
  • Whakapapa
  • Ohakune
  • Raetihi
  • Taihape
  • Marton
  • Feilding
  • Palmerston North

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • New Plymouth
  • Whanganui
  • Palmertson North
  • Levin

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Whanganui Chronicle

Trio of top artists on show at Milbank Gallery

Liz Wylie
By Liz Wylie
Multimedia Journalist, Whanganui Chronicle·Whanganui Chronicle·
12 Aug, 2017 09:50 AM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Karl Amundsen (left) and Garry Currin with works by Ross Ritchie at WHMilbank Gallery. Photo / Stuart Munro

Karl Amundsen (left) and Garry Currin with works by Ross Ritchie at WHMilbank Gallery. Photo / Stuart Munro

Three of New Zealand's foremost artists are sharing the walls at Whanganui's WHMilbank Gallery this month.

Garry Currin, Ross Ritchie and Karl Amundsen have their works on show at the Bell St gallery until September 10.

Ritchie graces the cover, and is the feature artist in the latest Art New Zealand magazine.

He was recently described as "a figurative artist in the sense that his works have always denoted or referred to things, animate and inanimate, and the phenomena of the physical world."

Bill Milbank says he has a long association with Ritchie who is a former exhibitions officer of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"Ross is a journeyman artist these days," he says.

"He travels a lot."

Ritchie's works in the Whanganui exhibition are a series of portraits based on real life subjects that will be recognisable to some.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Whanganui-born Currin lives in Northland these days but his works in this exhibition are locally inspired.

"One set of grandparents lived in Matai St and the other in Cornfoot St and both houses seemed very large and dark when I was a child," he said.

"These works are inspired by those houses which gave me a few nightmares."

Some of Karl Amundsen's portraits have recognisable faces while others have indistinct faces with bodies featuring strong muscle culture.

There is a bare-chested Vincent Van Gogh and a portrait of New Zealand artist Dame Louise Henderson.

"She was my tutor," says Amundsen.

"She had a profound impact on my work and I wanted to capture her in the way she taught me to paint."

Amundsen says he is in the process of making Whanganui his place of residence.

"I have been planning to move here from Auckland over the past year but it has been a bit of a zig-zag process," he says.

The exhibition of works by Garry Currin, Karl Amundsen and Ross Ritchie is open for viewing at WHMilbank Gallery, 1B Bell St, 11am-5pm Tuesday to Sunday.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Save

    Share this article

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

Whanganui Chronicle

Why Whanganui is in for a warmer than normal winter

02 Jul 09:14 PM
Whanganui Chronicle

How a white picket fence symbolises a significant Whanganui family

02 Jul 06:00 PM
Whanganui Chronicle

Rangitīkei fencer regains Golden Pliers title

02 Jul 06:00 PM

There’s more to Hawai‘i than beaches and buffets – here’s how to see it differently

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

Why Whanganui is in for a warmer than normal winter

Why Whanganui is in for a warmer than normal winter

02 Jul 09:14 PM

There's a 60% chance of above-average temperatures between July and September.

How a white picket fence symbolises a significant Whanganui family

How a white picket fence symbolises a significant Whanganui family

02 Jul 06:00 PM
Rangitīkei fencer regains Golden Pliers title

Rangitīkei fencer regains Golden Pliers title

02 Jul 06:00 PM
Athletics: Early training years bring lessons in preparation

Athletics: Early training years bring lessons in preparation

02 Jul 06:00 PM
From early mornings to easy living
sponsored

From early mornings to easy living

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Whanganui Chronicle e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Whanganui Chronicle
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP