The Big Idea talked to Stanley Palmer on the eve of his latest exhibition Chart of Aotearoa. It features nine works, and is the first in an ‘ambitiously planned series of 50 paintings revisiting and charting his favourite locations throughout New Zealand’. He has prolific capacity - all these new works were produced between mid-2017 and now.
Stanley is one of New Zealand’s most renowned landscape artists, has been exhibiting since 1958 and has works featured in New Zealand’s pre-eminent galleries.
“I’m chasing places that are from the past,” says Stanley, though this isn’t a new concept for him. He likes placing his work “in the immediate past” – about 30 to 40 years back in time, to create a subtle reminder of what we are missing, changing, losing.
