# EP 16 Gretchen Albrecht

An episode of [The Good Oil](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1678059340), 17 Mar 2024, 1 h 17 min.

Audio: https://content.rss.com/episodes/197617/1393424/thegoodoil/2024_03_17_08_37_36_ee9349ae-744e-452c-a104-4f6acb5ddfd0.mp3

In this episode I visit Gretchen Albrecht at her recent show at Two Rooms gallery in Auckland. After graduating from the The Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland with an Honors Degree in Painting in 1963, Gretchen quickly established what has become one of the most enduring and impressive abstract practices in NZ, with her much celebrated West Coast paintings and Hemisphere works, and continues to evolve her practice 60 years later. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, The Fletcher Collection, The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The University of Auckland Art Collection and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gretchen is a Francis Hodgkins Fellow and was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2000 for services to painting. There are images of the paintings we talk about on The Good Oil Gretchen Albrecht Instagram post for your reference. In this episode you'll hear Gretchen speak about the influence of her builder father and seamstress mother, being taught by Louise Henderson, the stored experiences of life that she draws on in her practice, her advice to young artists, the possibilities that different shaped stretchers offer and the secret figurative references she includes in her work for her to enjoy. Links Gretchen Albrecht Instagram The Good Oil Instagram Two Rooms Gretchen Albrecht Artist Web Page Nadine Milne Gallery Gretchen Albrecht Artist Web Page

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