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The hanging sky /

Cotton, Shane.

The hanging sky / Shane Cotton, the hanging sky Shane Cotton ; [text by] Justin Paton with Eliot Weinberger, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and Robert Leonard. - Christchurch, N.Z. : Christchurch Art Galley Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2013. - 192 pages : color illustrations ; 40 cm.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Wellington from 12th June to 6th October 2013. Includes plates: (p. 52-183) "The exhibition Shane Cotton : the hanging sky, curated by Justin Paton, was organised by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in association with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane and showed in Australia and New Zealand in 2012 and 2013"-- P. 192.

Includes bibliographical references.

The ghosts of birds / Finding space : six encounters with Shane Cotton / Ever in between / The treachery of images / Plates. Eliot Weinberger -- Justin Paton -- Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow -- Robert Leonard --

"Since the early 1990s Shane Cotton (Ngti Rangi, Ngati Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters of landscape and memory. In the mid-2000s, however, his work headed in an unexpected direction- skywards. Employing a sombre new blue-black palette, Cotton painted the first in a major series of skyscapes - vast, nocturnal spaces where birds speed and plummet. Since then the series has become increasingly complex and ambitious, incorporating ragged red skywriting as well as ghostly 'marked heads'. Combining major recent paintings with a spectacular body of new work, The Hanging Sky showcases Cotton's faith in painting as a space of possibility and provocation - a place of leaps, freefalls and charged collisions between images"-- Christchurchartgallery.org.nz. website (viewed 28/062013)

9781877375255 (hbk.)


Cotton, Shane--Exhibitions.
Cotton, Shane--Criticism and interpretation.


Painting, New Zealand--20th century--Exhibitions.
Painters--New Zealand--Exhibitions.
Birds in art--Exhibitions.
Art, Maori--Exhibitions.
Whakaaturanga toi ataata
Painters--New Zealand--Biography.

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