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Marking time : portraits of the inked / Richard Wotton ; editing, Richard Wotton and Greg Donson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Whanganui, New Zealand : Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 60 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780473372804
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Heritage & Archives Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections Reference - not for loan 779.092 WOT 1 Reference Only T00617393
Heritage & Archives Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections Reference - not for loan 779.092 WOT 2 Reference Only T00617388
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 779.092 WOT 1 Available T00617378
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 779.092 WOT 2 Available T00617398
Non-Fiction Suzanne Aubert Library at Jerusalem WG_JGLOBAL 779.092 WOT 1 Available T00617383
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Although this may seem like a seismic shift in focus, his [Richard Wotton's] interest in portraiture has been present since the late 1970s, and, if anything, this new body of work weaves together these two strands of his practice. They are portraits, certainly, but on the skin of each of the subjects is a visual architecture of the everyday: symbols, signs, images and lines that are drawn from a vocabulary as unique as it is universal. The subject matter of the tattoos is diverse and eclectic: a shark swimming from an armpit, a peacock in profile, cartoon cars, spider webs, tendrils and text. Today, tattooing is more popular than ever and it is now widely accepted across class, gender and cultural boundaries. The internet and social media have enabled even easier access to imagery and therefore made the creative direction of these pieces a more collaborative process between tattooist and tattooed."--Publisher description."Although this may seem like a seismic shift in focus, his [Richard Wotton's] interest in portraiture has been present since the late 1970s, and, if anything, this new body of work weaves together these two strands of his practice. They are portraits, certainly, but on the skin of each of the subjects is a visual architecture of the everyday: symbols, signs, images and lines that are drawn from a vocabulary as unique as it is universal. The subject matter of the tattoos is diverse and eclectic: a shark swimming from an armpit, a peacock in profile, cartoon cars, spider webs, tendrils and text. Today, tattooing is more popular than ever and it is now widely accepted across class, gender and cultural boundaries. The internet and social media have enabled even easier access to imagery and therefore made the creative direction of these pieces a more collaborative process between tattooist and tattooed."--Publisher description.

Published to accompany the exhibition Marking time at the Sarjeant Gallery 5 November 2016 to 5 February 2017.

Includes essay: Identity politics by Peter Ireland.

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