Mike Petre exhibition
Mike Petre, Landscape 073 (2006).
Recent works by New Zealand artist Mike Petre will be showcased at Milford Gallery, Queenstown from 24 August. Petre’s paintings seek to explore ‘a rural discourse with the New Zealand landscape’.
“My work is a personal response to memory and experiences associated with spending a large part of my life immersed in rural environments. My paintings are not an attempt to elevate, idealise or romanticise the rural, but rather a means of exploring the notion of what it is, and what it means to be a ‘local’, and developing a visual language to convey this.”
Milford Galleries, Queenstown
24 August – 18 September, 2013