First Art Exhibition for Starmap Master Storyteller

Internationally renowned Pacific novelist, poet, and intellectual, Albert Wendt, will open his first solo art exhibition at the McCarthy Art Gallery in Auckland on 1st December 2008. Wendt rekindled his passion for painting in 2000, after spending much of his life writing prose and poetry. The last four years, mostly spent at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, have generated an impressive body of work that mark a poetic transition from his literary voice into the visual realm of art. Speaking about the forthcoming exhibition with Spasifik Magazine, Albert Wendt quipped “I decided to keep my work simple and elegant, but it had to have depth … just like a good poem”. The exhibition is curated by Fono McCarthy and will run from 1-19 December 2008 at the McCarthy Art Gallery, Axis Building 1:9, on the corner of St Georges Bay Road and Cleveland Road, Parnell.