Exhibition History
One-person shows
1948 Wellington Public Library
1953 November, 41 cubist paintings, pastels and drawings
Auckland City Art Gallery
1955 May-June
Architectural Centre, Wellington
1959 May-June, 26 paintings from France, Italy, England and the Middle East
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1960 August
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1961 Centre Gallery, Wellington
1963 John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1964 March
Centre Gallery, Wellington
1965 April, Elements: Air and water, 30 abstract paintings
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1968 Auckland Festival exhibition
New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1970-1976 One-person exhibitions
New Visions Gallery, Auckland
1971 Bush revisited
Hawkes Bay Cultural Centre, Napier
1972 40 paintings
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch
1977 May, Coromandel: Recent paintings
Barrington Gallery, Auckland
1979-1983 One-person exhibitions
John Leech Gallery, Auckland
Including Louise Henderson, 50s to 80s: A casual survey, Auckland Festival exhibition, 1983
1985-1986 One-person exhibitions
Scott Potham Gallery, Auckland
1987-1988 One-person exhibitions
Charlotte H. Gallery, Auckland
1991-1994 Exhibited at Warwick Henderson Gallery, Auckland
Selected group shows
1935 First exhibited with The Group,
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch
(also in: 1936, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1955 and 1962)
1937 First exhibited at the
Auckland Society of Arts
(also in: 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1968)
1949 May, opening exhibition
Helen Hitchings Gallery, Wellington
1950 Thornhill Group
Hamilton
November –December, Thornhill Group,
Wellington
1951 October, Thornhill Group
(with John Weeks, Alison Pickmere, John and Charles Tole, W.S. Wallis and Helen Brown)
Auckland
1952 June-July, 15 New Zealand painters,
Irving Galleries, London (organised by Helen Hitchings)
Association of New Zealand Art Societies
Five works by nine artists
Auckland (August)
Wellington (October-November)
1954 June, Auckland Festival exhibition
(the exhibition included works by Colin McCahon, Milan Mrkusich, David Kennedy, May Smith, Ross Fraser and Kase Jackson)
Auckland City Art Gallery
November, Object and image
(with Colin McCahon, John Weeks, Milan Mrkusich, Kase Jackson, Ross Fraser and Michael Nicholson)
Auckland City Art Gallery
1955 November, Unit Two
(with Colin McCahon, Kase Jackson, Gabrielle Hope and Michael Nicholson)
Auckland City Art Gallery
1956 New Zealand painting, Auckland Festival exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery
1957 March-April, Black and White, group show
Artists International Association, London
1958 January, London Group
Royal Society of British Artists Gallery, London
1959 June, Three painters
(with Colin McCahon and Kase Jackson)
Auckland City Art Gallery
1961 October-November, Recent etchings and engravings
(with Kees Hos)
John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1961-1965 annual Contemporary New Zealand Painting exhibitions
Auckland City Art Gallery
1963 New Zealand painting and ceramics
Arts Advisory Council of New Zealand
Touring exhibition Tokyo and South East Asia
1965-1966 March, Elements: Air and water, abstract paintings
(with Milan Mrkusich’s Emblems
Ikon Gallery, Auckland
Romain Louis Gallery, Europe
Commission des Beaux-Arts de jette, Brussels
New Zealand Embasy, Paris
Three painters, four potters
(with John Perry, Len Castle, Barry Brickell, Helen Mason and Doreen Blumhardt)
New Zealand House, London
1966 June (with Jean Horsley)
New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1968 March-April, New Zealand women painters: 1845 – 1968, Auckland Festival Exhibition
Auckland Society of Arts Gallery, Auckland
Ten Years of New Zealand painting in Auckland
Auckland City Art Gallery
1970 New Zealand art of the sixties: A royal visit exhibition
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council touring exhibition
1987 When art hits the headlines
Shed II, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1990 Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art
Auckland City art Gallery