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Ashburton Art Gallery

327 West St

Ashburton | 7700

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Open Daily: 10am - 4pm

Wednesday: 10am - 7pm

Closed Good Friday, Anzac Morning and Christmas day

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An Iconography of Doubt: Paintings of Collective and Private Disaster

ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION

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DATES & TIMES

27 October - 13 December 2024

Open Daily: 10am - 4pm

Esther Deans’ thesis exhibition is an accumulation of ideas and imagery from four years of study towards her PhD through the Auckland University of Technology. This research was a personal investigation into her experiences and preoccupations, including ideas about eschatology, time, literature, art history, memory, and nature. In these works she draws on novels, films, and everyday structures to create an iconography that responds to personal and collective disaster.

Catalogue

Main image: Esther Deans, The Source, 2023, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist
Left image: Esther Deans, The River, 2023, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist

DATES & TIMES

27 October - 13 December 2024

Open Daily: 10am - 4pm

Wednesday: 10am - 7pm

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