Rooms

E i g h t n e w p a i n t i n g s

Peter Ireland

This series of imagined historical Rooms began in 2019 with reflections on the Napier prison cell occupied by Kereopa Te Rau prior to his wrongful execution for the murder of the Rev Volkner at Ōpōtiki in 1865.

This year the series has been revived with the 8 images in this show.

There are, at this point, about a dozen other preliminary drawings for further potential works.

The show will consist of 8 Rooms and 9 from the NZ Art History Sampler series

NZ Art History Sampler

All these works oil on paper, framed in white frame with glass

GODWIT'S REST (Robin Hyde Room)

Oil on Canvas, framed, no glass

455mm square 2020/25

ON HOLD

NEW JERUSALEM (James K Baxter Room)

Oil on Canvas, white frame, no glass

SOLD

RESTLESS ORPHAN (Janet Frame Room)

Oil on canvas

White frame, no glass

SOLD

FATEFUL PRESENCE (James Busby Room)

White frame, no glass

SOLD

HEADS UP (Horatio Robley Room) (after Henry Stevens)

White frame, no glass

Oil on canvas, 455mm square 2020/25

$900

Image: Commanding Prospect (George Grey Room) Oil on canvas 2025, Peter Ireland

SOLD

TIME AFTER TIME (Elsdon Best Room)

White frame, no glass

Oil on canvas, 455mm square 2020/25

$900

OFF THE RECORD (William Colenso Room)

Oil on canvas 2024/25

510mm square

SOLD

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1943 (after Patrick Hayman).................SOLD

(left) 316 x 285mm 2024

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1953 (after Rita Angus)..........................SOLD

(top right) 300× 300 mm 2024/25

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1954 (after Melvin Day)..........................$600.00

(Bottom right) 326 ×220 mm 2024

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1955 (after Gordon Walters).................$600.00

(top) 205 ×267 mm 2024/25

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1955 (after Milan Mrkusich).................SOLD

(Below) 332 × 262 mm 2024/25

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1959 (after Louise Henderson).............$600.00

316 × 285 mm 2024

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1967 (after Charles Tole).......................SOLD

(top) 272 × 286mm 2024/25

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1982 (after Melvin Day)........................$600.00

(Below) 208 × 298mm, 2025

NZ ART HISTORY SAMPLER, 1987 (after Gordon Walters).................$600.00

302 x 213 mm 2024/25