Andrew Drummond
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1951
90° Device, Beating
- 1995 {date advised by artist, Nov 2000}
- Mixed media
- Purchased 1995
- 96/77.3-3
Tags: circuits, hoses (tools), landscapes (representations), motion, rivers, sound (acoustics), water (inorganic material)
Andrew Drummond’s kinetic sculpture suggests the flat Canterbury landscape with its jagged coastline, and, like a heartbeat, the constantly pumped blue liquid brings to mind the region’s braided rivers, or the arteries of the body.
Drummond has drawn on the idea that the land and the body are interconnected, and he explores the way science and medicine use technology. This work is part of a larger installation entitled For beating and breathing in which the body is portrayed as a complicated piece of machinery.
Drummond was born in Nelson and studied at Waterloo University, Ontario. He is well known for his performance art practice during the 1970s and 1980s. He has also completed several major public commissions in Auckland and Wellington. Drummond was Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Canterbury from 1992 until 2003.
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90° Device, Beating
Andrew Drummond's 90° Device, Beating suggests the flat Canterbury landscape with its jagged coastline, and, like a heartbeat, the constantly pumped blue liquid brings to mind the region's braided rivers, or the arteries of the body.
Drummond has drawn on the idea that the land and the body are interconnected, and he explores the way science and medicine use technology. This work is part of a larger installation entitled For beating and breathing in which the body is portrayed as a complicated piece of machinery.
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Final weekend
Final chance to see Andrew Drummond Observation / Action / Reflection and Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, both exhibitions close Sunday 5 September at 5.00 pm.
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Andrew Drummond Book Launch
Andrew Drummond Observation / Action / Reflection book launch 25 August 2010.
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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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90˚ device, beating by Andrew Drummond
This article first appeared in The Press on 14 September 2005
90˚ device, beating by Christchurch sculptor Andrew Drummond has an audible presence in the contemporary gallery of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū long before it is visible.