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DYNAMO HUM
<\/strong>Denys Watkins
Foreword by Matt Blomeley
Essays by Anna Miles and Francis McWhannell
Conversation with Allan Smith and Denys Watkins<\/p>\n

Published by Rim Books in association with Bath Street Arts Trust
Design by Index – Jonty Valentine<\/p>\n

DYNAMO HUM<\/em> is an artist book by Denys Watkins, featuring paintings made between 2004 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Watkins is one of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s most respected contemporary artists. After thirty-one years teaching at Elam School of Fine Arts, he left in 2011 to pursue a full-time studio practice. With Dynamo Hum<\/em>, he turns his multifaceted interests toward the book as an artistic statement.<\/p>\n

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