Comprised of 240 painted Delft 'tiles' on paper, the installation playfully disrupts ideas of decoration, painting, and craft.
Past Exhibition
Tāite 19 Hepetema -
Hātarei 26 Oketopa
Thursday 19 September -
Saturday 26 October
2013
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman, 2013.
Mass produced and hand painted, What If, Abel Tasman touches on cultural colonisation, and perhaps more pragmatically, the colonisation of the working painter's studio by wet works waiting to dry.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman, 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman, 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Image: Francis van Hout, What If, Abel Tasman (detail), 2013.
Francis van Hout
Francis van Hout is a Christchurch based painter who studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury. Van Hout has exhibited nationally and internationally for over two decades.