John Reynolds
Artwork Detail
Sun Tree Beginning layers images and signs. A tree of life, whose raw, fleshy form comes from a 12th-century fresco of the Garden of Eden held in Madrid’s Prado Museum, is compared to a shaky diagram which could equally be a timber construction or a road map. John Reynolds ranges freely over grids and coordinates, his visual sources have an
international scope. With lurid colours that evoke blood or advertising, he creates a map of veins, or city streets. ‘It’s an ongoing fascination for me . . . the ways geography and history
get smudged.’
- Title
- Sun Tree Beginning
- Artist/creator
- John Reynolds
- Production date
- 1993
- Medium
- acrylic, wax crayon, and oil stick on board
- Dimensions
- 2400 x 2400 mm
- Credit line
- Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1993
- Accession no
- C1994/1/435.1-2
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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