Past in Perspective
Terry Stringer
Type
- Sculpture
Medium
- Acrylic paint
- Wood
Dimensions
- H2170 x W1145mm
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Terry Stringer, ‘Past in Perspective’ (1984), City Campus, University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021
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Description
Stephen Ellis describes this work as exploiting its installation in Building 206 by "using only a small part of the wall to involve the whole wall in" one of Terry Stringer's quintessential perspective games. Approached in the confined space the "relief head on a relief pedestal borrows colour from the setting; and a forced perspective backdrop fattens the reliefs and twists the wall."
This is one of a series of works curated by Pat Hanly.
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)