Appropriation
Richard Killeen
Type
- Painting
Medium
- Acrylic paint
- Aluminium
Dimensions
- H1900 x W3900mm
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Richard Killeen, 'Appropriation' (1984), University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021
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Description
Large collage work consisting of 20 pieces of acrylic paint on aluminium cutouts.
One of a number of works commissioned by Pat Hanly for each of the level foyers when Building 206 (originally Arts 1 Building) was built in 1984.
List of works in Building 206:
Level 1: n/a
Level 2: Claudia Pond Eyley, ‘Mount Eden Landscape’
Level 3: Carole Shepheard, ‘Four Directions’
Level 4: Terry Stringer, ‘Past in Perspective’; Carole Davis ‘ A Degree of Celebration’
Level 5: Philippa Blair, ‘Tree of Knowledge’; Susy Pennington, ‘Beyond Horizontal’
Level 6: Richard Killeen, ‘Appropriation’; Rob Taylor, ‘Lithic Link’
Level 7: Malcolm Harrison, Untitled
See also:
- Stephen Ellis, 'Artists in Auckland University's Arts/Commerce Buildings' Art New Zealand 33, (1984)