In this episode, I visit Graham Fletcher at his home and studio in Sawyers Bay, Otago.

Graham has several qualifications to him name, including a Master of Fine Arts (with Hons) and a Doctor of Fine Arts, both from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. He has shown in numerous solo and group shows for over 25 years, and his work is held in many private and public collections, including in the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Sarjeant Galley Te Whare o Rehua and the Dowse Art Museum, and has a long list of awards and residencies to his name.

He is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland and Milford Gallery in Ōtepote Dunedin.

There are images of the paintings that we talk about on The Good Oil Graham Fletcher Instagram Post for your reference.

You’ll hear Graham talk about how the combination of a visit to a home in Mt Eden and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and architecture magazines have had an unexpected and huge impact in the eventual direction of his practice, the relationship between tribal works and contemporary paintings that appear as subjects in his work, the role of the surreal, perfect world of advertisements of the 1960’s as rich reference material and the main lesson that he has taken from Matisse.