Prof Peter James Smith will explain his pieces which comprise Seven Key Works 2002-2008 and Selected Sublime Echo Studies, in a talk upstairs at Milford Galleries Queenstown, from 5.30pm to 7pm.
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, May 15.
The professor of mathematics and art and head of the School of Creative Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology combines landscapes and intellectual endeavour by mixing science and art, image and text, the mathematical and the visual, gallery manager Maurice Watson said.
The 56-year-old, Paparoa-born painter recently returned from the Antarctic where he was an art fellow.
Mr Watson said Milford had represented Prof Smith for about 15 years, but this would be only his second solo show in the resort.
