This exhibition, the Gallery’s first single-collector exhibition, pays tribute to the significant collection amassed by curator, art historian and long-time director of New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, Avenal McKinnon. Avenal began collecting while still a student at the Courtauld Institute in London and continued throughout her life. The exhibition includes portraits of Avenal and her family alongside works by well-known New Zealand artists with whom she built close friendships, and works that Avenal gifted to the Gallery.

Curated by Helen Kedgley

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