Emily Hartley-Skudder Kitchen (Still Life with Vegetables and Spatula) 2012. Oil on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
Emily Hartley-Skudder Kitchen (Still Life with Vegetables and Spatula) 2012. Oil on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
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Recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder's eerily precise still lifes play on the idea of the 'artificial ordinary'.
For three weeks, Hartley-Skudder's works will provide the finishing touches to a furnished showhome in the Wigram Skies development, fulfilling their ultimate destiny as the aspirational props for a perfect life. Drawing on the traditions of conventional still-life painting and the miniaturised perfection of a child's dollhouse, Hartley-Skudder's paintings of household objects – fruit, crockery, even a jaunty rubber duck – reference and double the highly choreographed interior of the showhome in unexpected and sometimes unsettling ways.
Open from 12-4pm Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays.
Supported by Orange Homes.
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Date:
27 February – 19 March 2013 -
Curator:
Felicity Milburn -
Exhibition number:
931 -
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Outer Space programme sees Canterbury arts graduate exhibit work in Showhome
The Gallery's latest exhibition in the Outer Spaces programme, Showhome, has opened in Christchurch, featuring the disconcertingly 'perfect' works of recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder.
