Greer Twiss
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1937, d.2025
What's a Dead Albatross Doing in a Place Like This?
- 1999
- Galvanised steel
- Gift of the artist, 2020
- 1200 x 1800 x 4000mm
- 2020/051.a-e
Location: Touring Gallery C
Tags: birds (animals), brooms (maintenance tools), buckets (vessels), hooks (fasteners), monochrome, wheelbarrows
Twiss places one of the great wanderers of the Southern Ocean among the tools of everyday labour. The wheelbarrow, bucket and rake bring the toroa (albatross) into a world of carrying, maintenance and responsibility, while a small, damaged sailing vessel hints at longer histories of seafaring and human movement. The contrast is striking: a bird shaped for effortless flight lies grounded among objects associated with work, burden and repair.
(Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu 15 August 2026 – 8 February 2027)
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