Grazing Cows
Jeff Thomson
Type
- Sculpture
Medium
- Iron
- Paint
Dimensions
- 3 cows: Black & White Cow: H1195 x W1860 x D690mm; Black, White & Red Cow with udder: H1285 x W1765 x D505mm: Yellow cow: H1360 x W1880 x D560mm
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Jeff Thomson, ‘Grazing Cows’ (c.1991), Massey University, Te Papa-i-oea Palmerston North
Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022
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Description
"Corrugated iron animals, birds, cars and people: these works have established Jeff Thomson fairly and squarely in the memory banks of most New Zealanders and many Australians.
I reiterate without fear of contradiction, that he is the undisputed Iron Man of Australasia.
Foreword/Four Words: The Corrugated Iron Man"
~ quoted from John F. Perry Director The Bath House Rotorua's Art and History Museum, in Jeff Thomson - Any Old Iron by Richard Brimer
An apt subject for an agricultural university, this work is a sculptural composition of three painted, corrugated iron cows. Thomson created the work while Guest Artist in Residence at Massey University.