Boyd Webb
Blessed

Artwork Detail
Expatriate artist Boyd Webb’s work combines sculpture, performance, theatre and photography. As a student at the Royal College of Art during the 1970s, he brought his own deadpan humour to London’s developing performance and conceptual art scene. Webb’s photographed tableaux always
reveal the artifice of their construction – made of everyday things like old carpet and plastic toys, they hover between reality and illusion. In Blessed, Webb shows an omnipotent clockmaker god with surgically gloved hands, winding up his creations and setting them loose over a global carpet.
- Title
- Blessed
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1985
- Medium
- cibachrome photograph
- Dimensions
- 1525 x 1220 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1986
- Accession no
- 1986/7
- Other ID
- 1986/7/X
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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