Richard Killeen
Richard Killeen (born 1946) is a significant New Zealand painter, sculptor and digital artist.
Information
Richard Killeen was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where his lecturers included Colin McCahon, before graduating in 1966. He has won a number of awards, including the QE2 Arts Fellowship, and has been the subject of several major exhibitions. He is particularly famous for his arranged collections of aluminium 'cut outs' hung on walls, from 1978 onwards, and has continued arrangements of objects in this style.
Style
His early cut-outs reflected Killeen's "discontent with the compression caused by the four static points of the frame," and an answer was found in their "off-stretcher presentation."[1] These are created from cardboard templates, which he uses to cut aluminium sheeting, lacquer, and paint.[1]
References
Further reading
- Francis Pound, The Escape from the Frame: Richard Killeen's Cut-Outs, in Art New Zealand magazine (No.20: Winter 1981)
- Book of the Hook, Christchurch Art Gallery
External links
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- Richard Killeen home page
- Artist page at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Artist collection page at Christchurch Art Gallery
- Official artist page for Killeen's Auckland dealer gallery, Ivan Anthony
- Works shown at Brooke Gifford Gallery