KALEIDOSCOPE. GORDON CROOK

The UK-born artist had been living in Wellington for 15 years when Kaleidoscope was “privileged to be allowed into the very private world of Gordon Crook; a world,” says presenter Nik Brown, “of symbols, reality and dreams.”

“Crook first became known in New Zealand in 1979 when he was selected to make the huge fabric banners for the New Zealand Embassy chancery in Washington DC. Numerous visitors to the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington will have seen his banners and panels there.” In the decades that followed, his art – textiles, prints, paintings and collages – was exhibited throughout the country.