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The London Man Of Whanganui and Ye Olde Masters (European Art Masters)
A selection of drawings from the sketch book of 2007. These drawings were the result of an artist in residency in Whanganui . The artist was intrigued by advertisements sourced from the archives of the Wanganui Chronicle in the 1970's, of a Department Store then called 'London Town'. He invented the London Man of Whanganui, a pipe smoking fashionista of the period. Part Fawlty Towers and Austin Powers with a touch of 'urban regional' New Zealand. For other visual research the artist drew from Art History with its renderings of archetypical European Dandies. Surrounding the figures on these pages and thus undermining their imagined importance, space junk imagery from 2006 collide and stand-in for a constructed language.
The London Man Of Whanganui and Ye Olde Masters (European Art Masters)
A selection of drawings from the sketch book of 2007. These drawings were the result of an artist in residency in Whanganui . The artist was intrigued by advertisements sourced from the archives of the Wanganui Chronicle in the 1970's, of a Department Store then called 'London Town'. He invented the London Man of Whanganui, a pipe smoking fashionista of the period. Part Fawlty Towers and Austin Powers with a touch of 'urban regional' New Zealand. For other visual research the artist drew from Art History with its renderings of archetypical European Dandies. Surrounding the figures on these pages and thus undermining their imagined importance, space junk imagery from 2006 collide and stand-in for a constructed language.