William in Paradise' - 2007 acrylic & glitter on canvas - 152cm x 91cm (available)
'William in Paradise Part I'
Merit award winner, February 2007 National Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton, New Zealand.
This work is part of a series of works (Paradise Lost) that investigate contemporary articulations of Queer identity in a postmodern world. The works are an exploration of Queer stereotypes, gay motifs and my own critical responses to theses modes of representation within NewZealand and the Pacific.
This work was selected for ‘Existence: life according to art’ a curated exhibition at The Museum of Waikato 29 April - 15 October 2007.
'Lost in the Gardens of the Pink Narcissus, William in Paradise Part II'
Finalist in the Norsewear National Contemporary Art Award 2007.
This work is part of a series of works (Paradise Lost) that investigate contemporary articulations of Queer identity in a postmodern world. The works are an exploration of Queer stereotypes, gay motifs and my own critical responses to theses modes of representation within NewZealand and the Pacific.
In the title ‘Pink Narcissus’ references the anonymous 1971 experimental film of the same name. The film is an erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute. The garden image in the painting was appropriated from a cut piece of a discarded mattress found in a skip in Hamilton.
'Lost in the Gardens of the Pink Narcissus, William in Paradise Part II'
152cm x 91cm (Waikato Museum Collection)