Gretchen Albrecht is a 1963 DipFA(Hons) graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts where she also briefly taught. She was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago in 1981, and became a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Auckland in 1999. She was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Painting in 2000 and has exhibited in New Zealand and internationally for more than 40 years. A survey of some of the dozen art works owned by the University is on show at Old Government House until Friday 11 September.
