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On display
Prone Steve 2 by Kristin Stephenson
Kristin Stephenson Prone Steve 2 2004 Charcoal on paper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gifted 2023
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Free
Join volunteer guide Marg Collier as she discusses Kristin Stephenson's Prone Steve 2 on display in Dummies & Doppelgängers on the ground floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12 noon (except during public and school holidays).
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Dummies & Doppelgängers
2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Collection
Kristin Stephenson Prone Steve 2
This spare and vulnerable drawing of Kristin Stephenson’s husband, Steve, was made as vascular dementia gradually undermined the clear outlines of his personality. He had always loved being drawn by her, and they had agreed that she would record the progression of his condition, however difficult. Here, unflinching lines document his increasingly fluid sense of self and her experience of a familiar body made newly strange. Flung into an untested reality, Kristin and Steve connected through the ordinary. His woolly socks speak to the small comforts they arrived at together to ease the journey.
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
