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This is my brother Spine, in whom I am much pleased 1998-99

Artwork This is my brother Spine, in whom I am much pleased this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint, mica, pencil, moon gold and yellow gold on Arches Aquarelle paper, created in 1998-01-01
Accession No.
2000.097
Date Created
1998-99
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
75.4 x 105.8cm
Media Category
Drawing
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint, mica, pencil, moon gold and yellow gold on Arches Aquarelle paper
Place Created
New York, United States
Credit Line
The Max Gimblett Gift. Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2000

This drawing features a quatrefoil with skeleton torso. Gimblett drew a self-portrait (holding a mirror) before drawing the skull motif and a skeleton form within a 'distorted' quatrefoil. He regards 'bone' as the eternal structure which prevails when the personality disintegrates. The skull and portrait move as two faces in association with each other.

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© Max Gimblett

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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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