Traffic Cop Bay

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Title

Traffic Cop Bay

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This large acrylic painting by Bill Hammond is named after Traffic Cop Bay, an area close to the artist's home in Lyttelton near Christchurch. Painted in 2003, Traffic Cop Bay features Hammond's characteristic 'birds' - elongated human figures with bird heads and wings. In an ambiguous space filled with unlikely objects and land masses, the bird figures perform various activities which are both familiar and utterly foreign. The artist as time-travellerIn 1989 Hammond visited the Auckland Isla...

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Format

Image

Date created

2003

Creator

Bill Hammond

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/729540

Related subjects

Birds / acrylic paint / canvas / paintings / Lyttelton

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