Robin White
Aotearoa New Zealand /
Kiribati, b.1946
Ngāti Awa,
Māori
Michael at Allan’s Beach
- 1975
- Screenprint
- Purchased 1976
- 608 x 395mm
- 76/62
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Tags: animals, beaches, birds (animals), boys, deaths, infants, insects, people (agents), stylization, toys (recreational artifacts)
In these portraits of her son Michael, Robin White includes a dead seagull that was found on the road outside her cottage. At the time, White was exhausted from juggling the demands of art and motherhood. She identified with the seagull: ‘In a way, that was me.’
(Robin White: Te Whanaketanga | Something Is Happening Here, 22 July – 5 November 2023)
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