Mid-Century Modern is an exhibition of paintings by late Whanganui artist Wally Kirby showing at Gallery 85 in Glasgow St.
Kirby was born in England in 1918 and studied at several British art schools during the late 1930s and early 1940s when the prevailing avant-garde styles were cubism and surrealism.
The influences of those movements are evident in the Mid-Century Modern exhibition which spans several decades of the artist's work.
Son David Kirby said his father emigrated to New Zealand with his mother, Constance, in 1956.
"They were a Pom and a Kiwi who met while they were both doing humanitarian work after the Second World War.