Overview
Auckland artist Richard Killeen came to the fore in the 1960s as a painter of oddly stilled and poster-like scenes of sub-urban New Zealand life. He consolidated his growing reputation in the late 1970s when he made the first of his ‘cut-outs’, in which compositional elements were cleanly sliced from pieces of aluminium and allowed to hang in variable arrangements on the gallery wall.
For the last two decades Killeen has expanded and deepened the range and possibilities of the ‘cut-out’ format. By the mid-1980s, each individual piece had begun to bustle with images culled from a vast range of sources. Come along to Interiors to see where this has taken him in his most recent work.