Location: Opus Gallery, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi

Greg Hall, Director of the Passchendaele Society will reflect on an artistic conversation between art and war, exploring the purposeful recording of art during war-time, artistic responses to the grandiosity of post war remembrance art and now, and art as a contemporary vehicle for commemoration.
 
Hall explains, "War art was to record and inform, but by the war’s end, perhaps moved by the great battles in Flanders’ fields, artists and writers were already venturing beyond record and information to commentary, condemnation and commemoration."

This floor talk supports the Museum’s current exhibition by Robyn Hughes: Commemorating Passchendaele – Home Front to Front Line.

About Greg Hall

Greg started writing around 20 years ago, when his family links to World War One and his growing knowledge of New Zealand’s participation in the Great War took him to Gallipoli, France, and Belgium. The profoundly emotional and evocative impact of the battlefields and war graves cemeteries moved him to record his emotions about the war through poetry and brought to light a deep desire to write.

Greg had a career in banking and finance before opting out a few years ago to concentrate on his writing, and Good Sons is his first novel. He is a director of the Passchendaele Society, which is immersed in centenary commemorations of the apocalyptic Flanders battles of 1917. When not writing, his interests include friends and family, boating, walking, and the music of Neil Young. Greg has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Devonport with his partner, Carolyn, a former bookseller.