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Free thinker (from 'Liliu' series) 2007

Artwork Free thinker (from 'Liliu' series) this artwork made of Watercolour on paper, created in 2007-01-01
Accession No.
2008.116.019
Date Created
2007
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
25 x 32.5cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Place Created
Auckland
Credit Line
Purchased 2008 with funds from the Estate of Lawrence F. King in memory of the late Mr and Mrs S.W. King through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
In the 38 watercolours and collages making up the 'Liliu' series, Julian Hooper recounts his Hungarian ancestor Gideon Vecsey's adventure to the Pacific in a non-linear tale set in the 1800s. 'Liliu' offers an imaginative insight into early Europeans' experiences in Polynesia and allows Hooper to engage with some of the continued issues that pervade representations of the region. 'Liliu' means to change or transform in the Tongan language. Hooper ingeniously conveys this idea by abstracting some of his personages and also through his use of various techniques and mediums such as collage and watercolour. Questions of indigenousness, acculturation and the persistence of stereotypes, particularly the sexualisation of the South Pacific, are playfully addressed in the series.

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© Julian Hooper

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Michael Parekowhai / Installation view of Jim McMurtry 2004 in GOMA’s Long Gallery for ‘Unnerved’, April 2010 / Courtesy: The artist and Michael Lett, Auckland / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Unnerved: The NZ Project’

May 2010 - Jul 2010

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