Whaddaya lookin’ at? Bill Hammond’s Volcano Flag!
Belonging to the infamous Buller series, Bill Hammond’s Volcano Flag (1994) pays a sinister tribute to the notorious ‘bird stuffer’, whose work had a lasting effect on the artist. […]
Belonging to the infamous Buller series, Bill Hammond’s Volcano Flag (1994) pays a sinister tribute to the notorious ‘bird stuffer’, whose work had a lasting effect on the artist. […]
Tony Cragg is one of Britain’s most acclaimed sculptors, working in a range of materials from the found industrial products of his early career, to the stone, bronze, stainless steel […]
A self-taught artist painting since the age of 14, Michael Hight was born in Stratford, Taranaki. Although his work is varied, he is most commonly associated with his realistic depictions […]
Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years, 1953-1959 Gow Langsford Gallery Kitchener St 12 June – 6 July 2013 Preview: 11 June By the end of 1956, McCahon sought to […]
Art in 19th century France was particularly important in society as not only was it a medium for documenting historical events, but it was also seen by the upper and […]
Bill Hammond’s dark, moody, and sometimes obsessively detailed landscapes have likened him to 16th Century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Born in Christchurch in 1947, it wasn’t until after graduating from […]
The ‘maverick of parody’, the anti-traditionalist, the artist – Dick Frizzell (New Zealand b. 1943) may be the quintessence of contemporary art. His work simultaneously takes influence from his previous […]
Colin McCahon is regarded as one of the country’s most important modernist painters. Born in Timaru, New Zealand in 1919, McCahon was not only preoccupied with the local landscape around him, […]
It is said that Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is the first real Cubist painting. Created from a number of influences, the image depicts five whores who are believed to be from […]
Perspective, in art, is the system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface. It was first discovered in the Classical Period by artists in Ancient Greece. However, the fall […]