Jeffrey Harris
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1949
Untitled from the Judith series
- 1979
- Pastel on paper
- Gift of Patricia Bosshard-Browne, 2019
- 356 x 426mm
- 2020/022
Tags: landscapes (representations), men (male humans), natural landscapes, pairs, people (agents), seas, seascapes, women (female humans)
Jeffrey began the Judith Series during 1978 and 1979. This highly personal body of work chronicled and analysed the joys and heartbreak of ending and starting relationships. A couple appear repeatedly throughout the series, together yet apart, on a lonely beach. They stand stiffly, awkwardly facing each other, often between them a bird pierces its breast with its beak in a symbol of self-sacrifice.
(Jeffrey Harris: The Gift, 1 October 2022 – 12 March 2023)