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Another World Inside this One 2024

Accession No.
2024.341
Date Created
2024
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
78.5 x 47 x 55cm
Media Category
Sculpture
Medium
Steel, timber and synthetic polymer paint
Place Created
New Zealand
Credit Line
Purchased 2024 with funds from David Thomas AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Another World Inside this One is inspired by idioms that reference an object that has been altered so many times that little remains of its original material – regional variants include 'Captain Cook's axe' and 'George Washington's axe'. Though there is scant proof that Captain James Cook ever had his own axe, these sayings that flow from a common belief that he did – and that the head of the tool was replaced twice and the handle six times, begging the question: is it still the same axe? Zac Langdon-Pole develops this idea by carving and painting this shop-bought version so that the wooden handle resembles its origins as a hickory tree sapling.
 

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An installation view of a gallery space, with a sculpture that appears to be an axe with a sapling for a handle in the immediate foreground.
APT11

Zac Langdon-Pole

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A detail view of a greyscale photograph in which the same figure, dressed in a vintage suit, repeats multiple times in different commuter-coded poses inside a pedestrian tunnel
RISING VOICES

RE-VISIONING HISTORY

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An installation view of a gallery space, with a sculpture that appears to be an axe with a sapling for a handle in the immediate foreground.
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Zac Langdon-Pole: Another World Inside this One

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Exhibitions featuring this object

'Rising Voices' at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London, May 2025, guarded by Michael Parekōwhai's Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003, and with glimpses of headdresses by Ken Thaiday Snr / © The artists / Image courtesy and © The V&A, South Kensington

ON TOUR: Rising Voices

May 2026 - Jan 2027

A view of a sculptural work made out of glowing red forms, installed on a gallery wall

‘The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2024 - Apr 2025

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