Richard Maloy
Attempts 18

Artwork Detail
These works are a 1:1 scale photographic print of art school studio tables. They operate as a recorded document of a particular moment in a studio tableʼs ongoing life. In my recent works I have been extending my investigation into art making processes and their cultural and social value. I have been exploring this in relation to both the art school and traditional art studio environment. I have been interested in how the photographic camera has an ability to both record, and through photographic printing an ability to present back residue from art making processes. I have been using photographic techniques which I have developed from my investigation into traditional modes of art documentation, like those employed by art galleries and museums to catalogue and reproduce art works and artefacts from their collections. I am interested in how the art works I have created using these techniques carry a connection and relationship to the original photographed source, and how the work is seen, understood and functions as a unique art work in its own right, and its relationships and play to art historical readings.
Statement by Richard Maloy
- Title
- Attempts 18
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 2013
- Medium
- colour photographic print
- Credit line
- Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist, 2013
- Accession no
- C2013/1/41/2
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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