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Frances Hodgkins: Anything but a Still Life with Q & A
Blandine Massiet du Biest. Image supplied
Frances Hodgkins Zipp 1945. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1979
Film
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join us for director Blandine Massiet du Biest’s debut feature, Anything but a Still Life which explores the life and art of celebrated expatriate painter Frances Hodgkins.
This screening celebrates the artist's work Zipp and will feature a Q & A with Blandine Massiet du Biest and curator Ken Hall.
Anything but a Still Life screened at Doc Edge Festival in 2023.
Running time: 90 mins, G, 2023.
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Collection
Frances Hodgkins Zipp
Frances Hodgkins was seventy-seven years old when she painted Zipp in 1945, nearing the end of her career and life. It is one of the last paintings she completed. With its semiabstract shapes and forms set against a despairingly dark background, Zipp highlights how Frances continued to push herself as an artist even through her later years.
Seemingly random objects emerge through the gloom; some distinguisable, others abstracted beyond recognition: belts, a zip, a shoe and some clothing. These personal items belonging to the artist serve not only as a still life, but also as a kind of self-portrait. Most telling is the way they are scattered and heaped in a rumpled pile, perhaps symbolising the disorder in her life at this time.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
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