Murray Grimsdale, ‘Metamorphoses’ (1987), University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021

The University of Auckland

In storage

Corridor, Ground Floor, Building 302 (Science Centre), City Campus, University of Auckland, CBD, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Metamorphoses

Murray Grimsdale was born in Dunedin and graduated from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts in 1963. Over the following decade he lived in the United Kingdom where he studied and worked, returning to New Zealand in 1974. 

Grimsdale is a figurative and landscape painter, an illustrator, and a sculptor working in bronze and terracotta.