BINNEY, Don;
Te Henga from Man’s Head III
1971
Oil on canvas
1370 x 1670mm
Damian Skinner has observed, ‘Binney’s work also partakes in a more contemporary expression of Pākehā identity, built up through careful relationship to the natural world, and its conceptual framing within Māori knowledge systems. This might be too grand a claim, but Binney’s work is careful to label birds, and later landscapes in many instances, with their Māori names. … It is Te Henga, not Bethells Beach, to which Binney pledges his attention.’[1]
[1] Damian Skinner, Don Binney: Ngā Manu/Ngā Motu – Birds/Islands (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland University Press, 2003), 12.
Inscriptions
DON BINNEY 1971 [u.r.]Exhibition History
Don Binney, A Flight Through Time, Gow Langsford Gallery, Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau, 23 August to 27 September 2025
Don Binney, Islands and Headlands, Barry Lett Galleries, Tāmaki Makaurau, 1972
References
Gregory O’Brien, Don Binney: Flight Path (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland University Press, 2023), 198.
Peter Shaw, Rainbow Over Mount Eden: Images of Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau: Godwit, 2002), 124–25.
Damian Skinner, Don Binney: Ngā Manu/Ngā Motu – Birds/Islands (Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland University Press, 2003), plate 38.