Detail from design for Silent Patterns, Tony de Lautour's painting project for the Gallery forecourt
Dazzle camouflage Type 3 Design C by Maurice L. Freedman. Collection of the Fleet Library at RISD. Reproduced with permission
EB1922 Camouflage by Norman Wilkinson, Encyclopædia Britannica, v. 30, 1922, between pp. 540 and 541. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Dazzle camouflage Type 6 Design K by Maurice L. Freedman. Collection of the Fleet Library at RISD. Reproduced with permission
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An outdoor painting inspired by wartime Dazzle camouflage.
Christchurch-based artist Tony de Lautour's painting project for the Gallery forecourt is inspired by Dazzle camouflage, designed to disguise shipping during the Second World War. De Lautour's project reimagines the Bunker building housing the car park stairwell as the conning tower of a huge underground submarine or the bridge of a battleship.
Exhibition number 1003
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Date:
5 February 2016 – 30 June 2018 -
Curator:
Lara Strongman -
Exhibition number:
1003
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