Nugent Welch: Sketches from the Trenches

Saturday 4 April 2026 - Sunday 12 July 2026

Nugent Welch was New Zealand’s first ‘war artist.’ The works he made stand as a unique and highly personal record of New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War from the perspective of a soldier who served in the trenches. This exhibition explores what it was like on a WW1 battlefield through Nugent’s intimate landscape watercolours and follows his journey back home to his early impressionistic body of work.

Proudly supported by Heretaunga Bookfest Charitable Trust

Image: Captured German Howitzer, Haucourt, Nugent Welch, c.1918