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Details
- Date
- 1980
- Media category
- Installation
- Materials used
- acrylic lacquer on aluminium, 26 pieces
- Dimensions
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installation dimensions variable
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a - 1, 124 x 22 cm
b - 2, 69 x 33.5 cm
c - 3, 55.5 x 33 cm
d - 4, 114.5 x 24 cm
e - 5, 68 x 17 cm
f - 6, 49 x 12 cm
g - 7, 90 x 7 cm
h - 8, 79.5 x 14 cm
i - 9, 90.5 x 15 cm
j - 10, 56 x 14 cm
k - 11, 57 x 29 cm
l - 12, 106.5 x 20 cm
m - 13, 67 x 20 cm
n - 14, 51 x 22 cm
o - 15, 114 x 27 cm
p - 16, 86 x 22 cm
q - 17, 42.5 x 6.5 cm
r - 18, 66 x 9 cm
s - 19, 56 x 27 cm
t - 20, 57.5 x 24.5 cm
u - 21, 117 x 29 cm
v - 22, 52.5 x 7.5 cm
w - 23, 96 x 33.5 cm
x - 24, 92 x 17.5 cm
y - 25, 66 x 6.5 cm
z - 26, 97 x 13.5 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated verso part W, acrylic lacquer "Killeen/ .../ JUNE 1980/ .../ ...".
Signed and dated inside lid original crate, blue felt tip pen "Killeen/ .../ JUNE 1980/ .../ ...".- Credit
- Gift of Jim Barr, Mary Barr and Richard Killeen 2015. Founding Governors of the Friends of New Zealand art
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 334.2015.a-z
- Copyright
- © Richard Killeen
- Artist information
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Richard Killeen
Works in the collection
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About
Richard Killeen is a New Zealand painter renowned for his ‘cut-outs’ — collections of painted aluminium shapes that can be hung in variable arrangements. Works of this kind were seen in Australia in 1982 and 1986 at the Sydney Biennale and, through the 1980s and 1990s, in exhibitions at Ray Hughes Gallery.
Killeen draws on many art histories and cultural sources to create his image-rich art. This work is one of three called ‘Dreamtime’ from 1980 that make special reference to Aboriginal art. As critic Francis Pound has remarked, here landforms, boomerangs and other tantalisingly ambiguous shapes ‘float in the colours of night.’
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Richard Killeen, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, 1980–1980
"Better than collecting dust": the Jim and Mary Barr Collection:
- Manawatu Art Gallery, New Zealand 30 May 1987–04 Aug 1987
- Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui, Wanganui 31 Aug 1987–29 Sep 1987
Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art:
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia 1992–1992
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland 1992–1992
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, Wellington 1992–1992
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin 1992–1992
Shared pleasures: the Jim and Mary Barr collection, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, 05 Dec 1993–06 Mar 1994
Good work: the Jim and Mary Barr collection:
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin 17 Jun 2001–26 Aug 2001
- City Gallery Wellington, Wellington 02 Nov 2001–27 Jan 2002
Kind of Blue: new acquisitions and loans, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 29 Aug 2009–06 Dec 2009
(Long term loan), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, Dec 2009–Aug 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Mary Barr, Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art, Sydney, 1992.
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Kind of Blue: New Acquistions [sic] and Loans, Dunedin, 2009.
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Manawatu Art Gallery, "Better than collecting dust": the Jim and Mary Barr Collection, Palmerston North, 1987.
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Justin Paton (Curator), Good work: the Jim and Mary Barr collection, Dunedin, 2001.
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Justin Paton, Look, 'Kiwi Karma', pg.22-6, Sydney, Mar 2016, 24, 25 (colour illus.).
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Waikato Museum of Art and History, Shared pleasures: the Jim and Mary Barr collection, Hamilton, 1993.
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