Richard Killeen
Monkey's revenge


Artwork Detail
The arrangements of Richard Killeen’s cut-outs are never static. The collections of images come from the artist with the instruction: ‘Hang in any order.’ This freedom from compositional hierarchy draws attention to the way we read and create a visual language. In Monkey’s Revenge, Charles Darwin
and an ammonite fossil rub shoulders with an armoured helmet and a high-rise building. History is here, as is technology and evolution. Killeen operates like a filter, sifting through a bewildering diversity of images – quoting, rearranging and
offering up history for evaluation.
- Title
- Monkey's revenge
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1985
- Medium
- pencil, acrylic and collage on aluminium
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1987
- Accession no
- 1987/10.1-79
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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