After twenty years in London a somewhat notorious artist returns home when his life falls apart as a result of fraud, death and depression. The Artist as an Old Man (Self-Portrait) is a personal hour-by-hour journal of the day of his first New Zealand exhibition.
Accustomed to always being busy, the restless artist - eccentric, irritable and ageing - suddenly has nothing to do until the exhibition's evening opening. And so we follow him and his...