Francis Upritchard Believer (detail) 2012. Courtesy of Kate Macgarry and Ivan Anthony galleries. Photo: Anna Arca
Francis Upritchard Believer (detail) 2012. Courtesy of Kate Macgarry and Ivan Anthony galleries. Photo: Anna Arca
This exhibition is now closed
A New Age awakening? Or just a 1960s pipe dream? Francis Upritchard's Believer is a recent addition to her expanding gallery of hippies, dreamers and gurus.
Christchurch-trained and now London-based, Francis Upritchard has achieved international renown for her brightly coloured sculptures of gurus, idealists and dreamers. She offers two views of a so-called 'believer', complete with gown, string hair-band, and face paint, who seems to be 'transitioning' from meditation to some possible state of enlightenment. Upritchard was thinking, she says, 'about yoga, about spiritual beliefs and about people's attempts to free themselves from unhappiness.' While immersed in his beliefs, her figure also looks removed from the world – lost to us. His seems to be a faith with just one follower. This believer is a one-man religion.
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Date:
22 August – 16 October 2013 -
Location:
26E Lichfield Street -
Exhibition number:
941
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