Roger Boyce Great white (detail) 2008–10. Oil and water-based mediums on hardwood ply. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch and Suite, Wellington
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Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting
13 August –
14 November 2010
In this ambitious new 100-work series, Christchurch artist Roger Boyce reimagines the history of painting as a tragicomedy packed with stunts, mishaps and wild endeavours.
In this ambitious new 100-work series, Christchurch artist Roger Boyce reimagines the history of painting as a tragicomedy packed with stunts, mishaps and wild endeavours.
In most ‘Illustrated Histories', the story of art plays out as a succession of styles and art movements. But in this new series, Christchurch painter Roger Boyce reimagines the history of his chosen medium as a succession of outrageous stunts, tragicomic mishaps and wild endeavours. His Illustrated History takes satiric aim at everything from art criticism and abstract painting to the myth of the artist as hero.
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Collection works in this exhibition
Curator:
Justin Paton
Exhibition number: 849
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Roger Boyce: Painter Speaks
17 October – 11 December 2013
Grinning ventriloquist dummies are the stars of the show in Roger Boyce's Painter Speaks.
Article
Trouble ahead: Roger Boyce and The Illustrated History of Painting
If you want to get some perspective on the art of today, a good but grim way of doing so is to imagine it from the future's point of view. When the archaeologists of the year 2195 pick their way across the ruins of the city of Christchurch, what traces of art and culture will they find amongst the rubble? And more to the point, what fragments would we want them to find-if we had the choice?
Notes
Roger's version
When Roger Boyce's one-hundred work series called The Illustrated History of Painting went on show at Christchurch Art Gallery last year (and served momentarily as a base for high-level pow-wows amongst Brownlee, Key and other members of the quakestocracy), plenty of people noted that the series could become a great book.
Notes
Getting some on you
From a talk given by senior curator Justin Paton at the opening of Roger Boyce's The Illustrated history of painting at Christchurch Art Gallery on 12 August.