Richard Killeen

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Richard John Killeen ONZM (born 1946) [1] is a significant New Zealand painter, sculptor and digital artist.

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Biography

Killeen was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where his lecturers included Colin McCahon, before graduating in 1966. He has won a number of awards, including the QE2 Arts Fellowship, and has been the subject of several major exhibitions. He is particularly known for his arranged collections of aluminium 'cut outs' hung on walls, from 1978 onwards, and has continued arrangements of objects in this style. [2] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to painting. [3]

Style

His early cut-outs reflected Killeen's "discontent with the compression caused by the four static points of the frame," and an answer was found in their "off-stretcher presentation." [4] These are created from cardboard templates, which he uses to cut aluminium sheeting, lacquer, and paint. [4] [1]

Selected exhibitions

1967

1968

1969

1970

1972

1975

1976

1977

1979

1981

Richard Killeen Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch. The first of ten solo exhibitions Killeen would have with the gallery. [15]

1982

1983

1984

1985

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. [27]

1995

1996

1998

1999

2000

2001

2003

2005

2005

2007

2010

2021

2024

Selected works

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  27. ↑ Whiting, Cliff; Murphy, Bernice; McCormack, John; Sotheran, Cheryll, eds. (1992). Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Sydney: The Museum of contemporary Art [u.a.] ISBN   978-1-875632-04-6.
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