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    Neil Dawson

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1948

    Seascape - Installation

    • 1979
    • Mixed media
    • Purchased, 1979
    • 79/379

    Tags: circles (plane figures), cones (geometric figures), disks (object genres)

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    Contemporary NZ Sculpture from the Collection
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    The Sculpture Collection

    The Sculpture Collection

    The first encounter most Robert McDougall Art Gallery visitors have with the Sculpture Collection is passing Ex Tenebris Lux (1937), Ernest George Gillick's bronze figure of a reading woman, on their way to the Gallery's front entrance. This work's title and subject, symbolising enlightenment and literally translated as "from darkness, light", is an appropriate maxim for an art museum, but Gillick's sculpture has another, historical, significance. Originally sited within the Sculpture Court (now called the Centre Court) of the Gallery, Ex Tenebris Lux was donated in 1938 by local biscuit manufacturer Robert E. McDougall, who had gifted the funds to build Christchurch's public Art Gallery almost ten years before.

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