Judy Darragh Sissy Squat 2012/13. Digital print on adhesive vinyl, based on a work from 2012 of the same name in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Courtesy Jonathan Smart Gallery and Two Rooms
Judy Darragh Sissy Squat 2012/13. Digital print on adhesive vinyl, based on a work from 2012 of the same name in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Courtesy Jonathan Smart Gallery and Two Rooms
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Judy Darragh livens up the Gallery's Gloucester Street entry doors.
We're all waiting for the day when Christchurch Art Gallery opens its doors again. In the meantime, well-known New Zealand artist Judy Darragh is bringing her brand of humour and visual energy to the doors. Sissy Squat began its life as a promotional poster for a movie featuring a handsome Hollywood couple. But Darragh has set to work editing and creatively vandalising the image, covering its surface with spray-paint, strange data and hand-made visual glitches. Brightened up and painted over, the happy couple now look like they belong in a new genre – not romantic comedy, but science fiction.
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Date:
April – December 2013 -
Location:
Forecourt -
Exhibition number:
952 -
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