Richard Maloy
Raw Material #2

Artwork Detail
Richard Maloy has practised a kind of faux portraiture. His body is usually centrally positioned, while his image is hidden or only partly visible. This series of butter paintings was originally accompanied by a performance for camera, in which Maloy sculpted butter from a mass equal to his own body weight. The highly evocative material, with its
well-known odour and texture, creates a brilliant artificial colour field for Maloy’s picture plane. In the butter paintings, the finger marks and trawl lines of Maloy’s hands imprint his body in the work.
- Title
- Raw Material #2
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 2008
- Medium
- photograph on aluminium
- Dimensions
- 1080 x 1080 x 25 mm
- Credit line
- Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2009
- Accession no
- C2009/1/25/8
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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