Justin Paton - McCahon's Country

Is Colin McCahon our country's most important artist? Justin Paton thinks so. Paton is Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, an active art critic, and author of several books including the award-winning How to Look at A Painting, which also became a TV series. It's 100 years since McCahon's birth in 1919, and to celebrate Paton has released McCahon Country which examines nearly 200 of McCahon's paintings and drawings, including both iconic works and others never before published. He traces McCahon's paintings as a journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand. Justin Paton is speaking on Saturday afternoon at the Auckland Art Gallery and appearing at two events during the writers programme at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington in late February 2020: Justin Paton - McCahon's Country and Art in the Afterlife.