21 May 2021

Help needed to solve Don Binney art mystery

From Afternoons, 1:55 pm on 21 May 2021
Don Binney with FRIGATE BIRD II.

Don Binney with FRIGATE BIRD II. Photo: Michael Willison /NZ Woman’s Weekly 1969

There's a mystery in the New Zealand arts scene that is hopefully going to be solved with the help of the public.

Artist and writer, Greg O'Brien, is working on a book for Auckland University Press about Kiwi painter Don Binney, but is having trouble locating one of the paintings that make up the series know as 'Pacific Frigate Bird'.

Greg tells Jesse why he wants to find the painting.