2crop profile.jpg Born 1966 Auckland

Lives Waikato

Gallery Representative Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland

Collections Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington

James Wallace Arts Trust Auckland

Auckland City Council, Auckland

Public Exhibitions 

Call me I still love you Auckland Arts Festival (2015);

NZ Sculpture on Shore, Auckland (2014, 2012, 2010);

Male Nudes, Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Art Centre, Auckland (2013);

Portrait Painting Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Art Centre, Auckland (2012);

Gods Little Launderette, Auckland Arts Festival (2011)and Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Art Centre, Auckland (2011);

Works on Paper, Uxbridge Creative Centre, Auckland (2011);

Skins Outdoor Billboard Project, Auckland (2009)

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Selected Bibliography  Brendan McGorry and the Belle Epoque by Michael Wilson, Art New Zealand 2018;

Brendan McGorry by Warren Feeney 20 Artists / 20 Writers 2017;

 Long live the art of painting by TJ McNamara, The New Zealand Herald 2016;

Great Expectations by TJ McNamara, The New Zealand Herald 2015;

Brendan McGorry by Steph Chalmers 20 Artists / 20 Writers 2015;

Exploring space and absence by TJ McNamara, The New Zealand Herald 2009;

Contrast in cult of the curious by TJ McNamara, The New Zealand Herald 1994;

Joy of life by TJ McNamara, The New Zealand Herald 1988

“McGorry’s panels have a visionary quality that takes the strangeness of the Pre-Raphaelites and runs with it, relocating each scene to a old alternative preceptal and narrative realm. Theres a commentary on the operation of memory in them to, a set of ideas about the ways in which we jettison most of any given scene in order to emphasise selected parts, burnishing them until they assume an almost viisible significance.” Michael Wilson Art New Zealand winter 2018