Title

The cursive line: Adele Younghusband (1878 – 1969) and a circle of friends.

Venues

Whangarei Art Museum (15 October 2007 – 10 December 2007)

Date

(2007)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: New Zealand

Curator

Scott Pothan

Country of context

Aotearoa New Zealand

Abstract

Curated by Whangarei Art Museum Director Scott Pothan, the exhibition contains numerous works from the Whangarei Art Museum Permanent collection as well as works on loan from the Waikato Museum, Auckland City Art Gallery, Hocken Library, The New Dowse, The Waikato Trust and Ferner Gallery plus contextual works by artists from her circle.

The restless quest to work as an artist throughout her extensive life, constantly experimenting in style and media, always refining and redefining her visual language make Adele Younghusband a significant figure in the history of New Zealand modernism in the 20th century. She was after all a woman born amid the "morass of Victorianism" but lived a life open to new ideas and challenge. Her work shows a complex body of work in which allegory, portraiture and decorative works all play a vital role, cubism and a later period of symbolist surrealism - all themes consistent with the and 'art deco' aesthetic of synthesized cubism - give an added dimension to her work.

An altarpiece, previously believed lost, will feature in this exhibition, and will be blessed Rt Reverend Walter Turvey at the opening on Monday 15th October. [Gallery media, 2007]