The hungry sheep looks up
Artist
Cleavin, Barry
Date
1986
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Description
Barry Cleavin is New Zealand's most distinguished printmaker, developing an arts practice in prints that exposes the gap between appearance and reality.
Cleavin's art reveals the hypocrisy of its subjects in images that range from the playful and surreal to barbed social commentary.
Cleavin was Senior Lecturer of printmaking at the University of Canterbury (1978 -1990) and awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001. His work has also been the subject of two major surveys, Ewe & Eye at the Auckland Art Gallery (1982), and The Elements of Doubt at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (1987). 'Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin' by Dr.Melinda Johnston and Dr. Rodney Wilson, published in 2013 by Canterbury University Press details aspects of his imagery and practice.
Cleavin's art reveals the hypocrisy of its subjects in images that range from the playful and surreal to barbed social commentary.
Cleavin was Senior Lecturer of printmaking at the University of Canterbury (1978 -1990) and awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001. His work has also been the subject of two major surveys, Ewe & Eye at the Auckland Art Gallery (1982), and The Elements of Doubt at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (1987). 'Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin' by Dr.Melinda Johnston and Dr. Rodney Wilson, published in 2013 by Canterbury University Press details aspects of his imagery and practice.
Media
Etching, mezzotint, 2 plate embossing.
Measurements
Image: hxw; 413 x 288m
Frame: hxwxd; 625 x 475 x 28mm
Breadth 15mm
Frame: hxwxd; 625 x 475 x 28mm
Breadth 15mm
Registration number
ART00351
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