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Emily Hartley-Skudder: Showhome
27 February –
19 March 2013

Emily Hartley-Skudder Kitchen (Still Life with Vegetables and Spatula) 2012. Oil on canvas. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
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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Curator:
Felicity Milburn
Exhibition number: 931
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