Ruth Watson
Artwork Detail
Ruth Watson’s Tour of New Zealand seems to be an exercise in nostalgia: replicating a popular board game of the 1950s, it invites players to move through a succession of familiar tourist destinations. However, in Watson’s version, travelling this well-trodden path also means contending with a strange undergrowth of unsettling text. The surface of the painting peels back, as words like ‘unexplorable’ and ‘denied all legitimacy’ rise to the surface and begin seeping across the chocolate-box landscapes with their population of pink-skinned,
faceless people.
- Title
- Tour of New Zealand
- Artist/creator
- Ruth Watson
- Production date
- 1989
- Medium
- acrylic and mixed media on board
- Dimensions
- 1300 x 1340 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1993
- Accession no
- 1993/4
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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