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Bill Hammond Bone Yard Open Home, Cave Painting 4, Convocation of Eagles (detail) 2008. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and McLeavey Gallery

A Bird in the Hand

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1 October 2020. Posted by Blair Jackson

The Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation is honoured to assist the Gallery in acquiring Bill Hammond's Bone Yard Open Home for its permanent collection. But, we need your help!

Bill Hammond is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important living artists. His epic paintings are layered with meaning and mythology, and offer an Eden-like view of New Zealand not found in any other artist’s work. Bone Yard Open Home is Bill’s largest painting on a single piece of canvas, measuring more than four metres wide. It is an incredibly important work painted at the height of his career.

This is your unique opportunity to be part of our crowdfunding campaign to bring Bill Hammond's Bone Yard Open Home, Cave Painting 4, Convocation of Eagles (2008) home to Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Head to https://boosted.org.nz/projects/a-bird-in-the-hand to get involved.

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Commentary

Doctor Jazz Stomp and the Webb Lane Sound

“Bill Hammond is long, lithe and tired, and was born several years ago. Is currently pursuing a Fine Arts course and trying hard to catch up. He is deeply interested in the aesthetic implications of sleep, sports the Rat-Chewed Look in coiffures for ’68, and dreams about blind mice in bikinis. He has never been known to sing outside the confines of his bedroom. Shows a marked but languid preference for the subtle textural nuances and dynamic shadings of washboard, cowbell, woodblocks, claves, cymbal, spoons, thimbles, tambourine, and the palms of the hands in percussive contact.”

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