Sea Piece

1987

Barbara Tuck

Accessible

Type

  • Painting

Medium

  • Acrylic paint
  • Canvas

Dimensions

  • H2430 x W3660mm

Barbara Tuck, 'Sea Piece' (1987), University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021.

1987–Current

Foyer, Basement, Building 105 (The ClockTower or Old Arts Centre), City Campus, University of Auckland, CBD, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Artists
Credit

The University of Auckland Art Collection

Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

'Sea Piece' is painted as two panels, forming a diptych. In a painterly manner, Barbara Tuck has depicted a series of overlapping images of boats ranging from waka to dinghy. A tree stump indicates the price of these vessels on the landscape, as trees were felled to build them.