Pimp My Planet new work by Simon Shepheard opened last night at the Gallery. Above is "Landscrape" 2007-08 from the exhibition. With it's Water-Lily Pond colours, Shepheard seems to be making art from the scrap heap of Modernism. He's using the leftovers of the twentieth century, its floor boards and weatherboards stained with age and degraded paint, to make hazy references to New Zealand's pristine landscape tradition.
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