at 13 he was sent to New Zealand to live with his Uncle and Aunt in Christchurch; what was originally intended to be a brief remedial stint in New Zealand ended up being a sustained fifty-year relocation; in the mid-sixties Kreisler attended Canterbury Art School (Ilam) excelling in the painting department under the guardianship of Rudi Gopas and Bill Sutton. By ‘68 he was attracted to a teaching position at New Plymouth Boys High School; first major survey exhibition Not a Dog Show at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Wellington City Gallery in the mid-to-late eighties containted experiences from his two year visitation with his mother in Mexico