Philip Butler: Love's Labours
25 July, 2012 - 2 September, 2012
Boardroom
Philip Butler, Family Group (2002), Pen and ink on paper
Love's Labours is a selection of Philip Butler’s personal drawings from the 1970s to the present day.
Of his practice, Philip Butler says:
"Although I see myself as primarily a painter, I have always felt compelled to draw. I see the world around me and want to contain it. Throughout my life, drawing has given me an immediate and accessible means of responding to, and recording people and places, both real and imagined. When looked at in their entirety, my drawings constitute an album, a record of my life."
Born in London, Butler graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1970. Butler's work is held in public and private collections throughout New Zealand and overseas, and he has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout his career.