Bob Kerr: Hell Here Now
Bob Kerr will be giving a public floor-talk about Alfred Cameron at 2pm on Saturday the 21st of April.
- Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 April 2012
- Closing Date: Sunday, 6 May 2012
- Opening Time: Tues to Fri 11-6pm, Sat 11-4pm
Bob Kerr is a Wellington based painter and
author with an interest in New Zealand's history and
landscape.
Working from the diaries of Alfred
Cameron, Bob Kerr's paintings present a visual diary of Alfred's
journey as a young man leaving his uncle's farm in Culverden North
Canterbury, traveling to Suez Canal and eventually to
Gallipoli.
Monday the 31st May 1915, ' Going
forward again tonight. We miss our cobbers.' Then the despairing
entry in early June, 'It's just hell here now, no water or tucker,
only seven out of thirty three in number one troop on duty, rest
either dead or wounded. Dam the place, no good writing any
more.'Excerpt from the Gallipoli Diary of
Alfred Cameron
The exhibition also looks briefly at the
parallel story of Ismail Hakki, a Turkish soldier who was killed in
action in 1916.
Bob Kerr's paintings are held in private
collections in New Zealand and overseas. Perhaps his best-known
painting is on the cover of Michael King's Penguin History Of New
Zealand.
Bob Kerr is a Wellington based painter and author with an interest
in New Zealand's history and landscape.
His paintings are held in private collections in New Zealand and
overseas. Perhaps his best-known painting is on the cover of
Michael King's Penguin History Of New Zealand.
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