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FRANCIS UPRITCHARD: RAINWOB I
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1 March – 18 May 2008
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With Rainwob I Francis Upritchard offers a visionary landscape populated by abject, awkward and sentimental human figures. This new installation incorporates revitalised found objects and figurative sculptures that are a combination of the familiar, antique and ultramodern. Here Upritchard draws on the hallucinatory works of sixteenth-century Flemish figurative painters Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, utopian countercultural rhetoric, high modernist futurism and the fantasies of survivalists, millenarians and social exiles.
The figures model the faithfulness of spiritual and alternative lifestyles yet also allude to the futility and compromise inherent to dreams. Rainwob I suggests a complex of ideas about time, hope, social and evolutionary change as Upritchard ushers us into another world strangely reminiscent of our own.
Francis Upritchard is a Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence. This Taranaki residence programme is presented in partnership with WITT and is supported by Creative
New Zealand. Rainwob II will be exhibited at Artspace, Sydney from 4 - 27 April 2008 and at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne from 8 August - 5 September 2008.
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