Artist flying home
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney The New Zealand artist, Colin McCahon, will be staying in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital until he flies home to Auckland with his wife on Sunday, said a family friend yesterday. Mr McCahon, aged 65, spent 24 hours wandering the parks and streets of
Sydney, penniless and without food after he became lost in the city’s botanical gardens late on Wednesday morning. He was to have opened the first Australian exhibition of his work at the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art on Thursday evening but instead was in hospital recovering from his ordeal.
Mr McCahon, who suffered a slight stroke 18 months ago which impaired his sense of direction, was found on Thursday in the huge Centennial Park skm from where he was last seen by his wife, Anne, and a friend Alexa Johnston. The police had searched hospitals, shelters for derelicts, and the morgue for him.
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