Max Gimblett
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1935
Lost At Sea - 2
- 2002
- Acrylic polymer on Japanese Kinkami silver-fleck 100% kozo handmade paper
- The Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Gift
- 686 x 483mm
- 2011/030
“In 1983, the skull arrived in my work as a motif. I understand its presence as an element of my preparation for leaving my body. It is an aspect of one’s death.” —Max Gimblett (Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel, 1 August – 15 November 2020)
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Reading the Swell
The art of the sea has always been the art of vastness—without edges and with potential for infinite extension. It is this immensity that has invaded the Reading the Swell exhibition; finding its way through the automatic doors when no one is looking and quietly expanding the walls. Like sailors, artists have laid soundings in this uncharted vastness. Reading the Swell is a small and pointed selection of those soundings that see fit to make sense of the sea.