TREVOR MOFFITT
Trevor Moffitt’s expressionist paintings reveal the lives and stories of ordinary working New Zealanders. Moffitt graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1959. Unlike many of his contemporaries whose work pursued a nationalism based on the landscape, Moffitt’s interests resided in locating the human figure in the land and in 1962 he begun the Gold Miners series, based on childhood memories of Southland.
Moffitt had a preference for outsiders or local heroes, admiring Sydney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings and he developed numerous series based on such archetypes, including Otago sheep stealer James MacKenzie (1965). Often confrontational in their honesty, Moffitt’s work was admired by his peers, (including tutor at the School of Art, Bill Sutton), but have only recently received more substantial national attention.
Moffitt has works in the collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery and the James Wallace Arts Trust.
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