Max Gimblett

A DigitalNZ Story by Sienna Latham

"New York City, like New Zealand, is an island. It’s simply a narrow strip of land between two rivers. You can get on the Circle Line Ferry and sail around Manhattan, which is an extraordinary experience and reminds me of sitting in a dingy 20 feet off shore in the Bay of Islands when I was a kid, imagining holding New Zealand in the palm of my hand like a clam shell. I think islands are unique in that one can curate the wholeness of the place because it has defined boundaries." (Max Gimblett, 2009)

Auckland, New Zealand, New York, Buddhism, calligraphy, ink, war, Goya, family, philosophy

Image: Mrs. Gimblett in All Her Beauty - the exquisite corpse

Max Gimblett

Mrs. Gimblett in All Her Beauty - the exquisite corpse

Heart vine

Lord Ganesha

No. 12

The 10,000 things

Untitled Suite of Four

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 12, Das Haus der Phantasie

Daruma again and again for my beloved consort Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Kabuki

No. 16

All mind no mind - 9

New Zealand Blue

No. 4 - For Colin McCahon

Cerulean Blue - To Len Lye

Divine

Ghosts, Demons, and Dragons - 2

No. 9

White/Black - for Paul Valery

Core Key

Jade Space

Blue Boy

The Kiss

Pearl of the Pacific

Pearl of the Pacific - Call

Majesty - 2

Ancestor - Len Lye

For Chris Wilmarth - in Memoriam

Brother

Pearl of the Pacific - For Murakami Kagaku

The Forces

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 2, Eagle Down

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 7, Mirrors

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 23, Look Mum No Arms

This one's for Frank conducting my music

Don't be deluded

Ivory black/prussian blue

The Red Sea

The Beer Inks - 11, View

The Beer Inks - 12, the Walking Talking Radiator

Enso

Shaman

Monk - 2

Enso

All mind no mind - 11

Bridge - 6

Forbidden

The Bath of the Last Supper Crossed with the Grail

Percival Finds the Grail

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 18, Crash

Disasters of War - after Goya, drawings towards etchings - 30, Memory

Hilt

Titanium white

Blossom

Red Black White Gold