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Repetition

Richard Killeen
3 Mar – 20 Mar 2027
Repetition
Richard Killeen
Installation
Repetition
Richard Killeen
Installation
Repetition
Richard Killeen
Installation
Repetition
Richard Killeen
Installation

About the exhibition

An exhibition that brings together work by Richard Killeen spanning four decades (1974–2020) around a single connecting theme: repeated images.

Starting out at Elam School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Colin McCahon, Killeen has had a rich and varied career. Encompassing painting, print-making and digital works, Killeen’s practice defies narrow categorisation.

At the core, however, is a continued attempt to “seize and reposition the optical universe bit by bit.” (Neil Talbot, 2020). Time and again, Killen lifts images from the everyday and repositions them in ever-evolving compositions, creating new relationships and visual hierarchies.

In the exhibition catalogue, Laurence Simmons writes, “The images ‘appropriated’ by Killeen in his work, lifted originally from public compendia of images — resource books, collections, manuals, encyclopaedias — are repeated, and in that repetition their whole effect is transformed, dismantled, decomposed.”

Untitled
Richard Killeen, 1974
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 713 x 458 mm
Punctuation Face
Richard Killeen, 2002
Acrylic on aluminium, 36 pieces, each 138 x 120 mm
Repetition Ladybird
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 550 x 550 mm
Repetition Triangle Wasp
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 550 x 550 mm
Repetition Jar
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 550 x 550 mm
Repetition Triangle Wasp
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 550 x 550 mm
Repetition Dragonfly Triangle
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 350 x 350 mm
Repetition Ziggurat Cat
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 350 x 350 mm
Repetition Cup
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 350 x 350 mm
Repetition Ladybird Jar
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 350 x 350 mm
Repetition Dragonfly Book
Richard Killeen, 2020
UV ink jet on plywood, 350 x 350 mm
Untitled
Richard Killeen, 1978
Acrylic on paper, 300 x 300 mm
Untitled
Richard Killeen, 1978
Acrylic on paper, 300 x 300 mm
Untitled
Richard Killeen, 1978
Enamel on .7 aluminium, 400 x 400 mm

Artist

Richard Killeen

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