Author(s): Luke Smythe

NZ Art & Design

Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealand's most influential painters. Overthe course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight,and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand andoverseas. This comprehensive survey of her much-admired work reveals a paintersteeped in art history, drawing freely from a range of sources to create vivid,intellectually persuasive and deeply affecting work, and determined to push herwork in new directions.This revised edition includes her practice since 2019 and also interrogates herIlluminations work of the 1970s, which she revisited and re-presented in 2022.With a detailed and rich text by leading art writer Luke Smythe, plus a preface byart curator Mary Kisler, this magnificent book both interrogates Albrecht's workand celebrates her accomplishments.