Greatest Hits: The 1990s
A DigitalNZ Story by Courtney Johnston
I've been thinking about the 1990s a lot lately. It's the decade I came of age - I studied art history at the turn of the century, and although I wasn't there physically, Headlands, Cultural Safety, Toi Toi Toi - these are my art historical touchstones. A quickish sift through Digital New Zealand was revealing for what "felt" like the 1990s and what did not - this is a very personal selection, based on what I saw in the flesh and on the lecture theatre projection screen. Looking back, the decade seems characterised by a new consciousness or self-consciousness: of our art history, of New Zealand's (and New Zealand artist's) place in the world, of sexuality and the body, ethnicity and identity, language and communication, of how art is made, framed and disseminated. I wonder what I would pull together in a few years time to stand for the 2000s?
Boy Am I Scared Eh!
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Stop Thief!
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Painting 1993
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Whakapiri atu te whenua
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Faith
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Kenehi (Northern Light I)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Picture Painting
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
They Comfort Me
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Kiss The Baby Goodbye
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Indefinite Article
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Poorman, Beggarman, Thief (Beggarman)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Tua Whitu
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Roebuck Jones and the Cuniculus Kid
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Tour of New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Lingua Geographica
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Graft
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled (Red masks)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Send off
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Lookout 1
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Portrait of Julian Dashper
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The House of Parmesan
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
King for a day
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Chain Frame
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Drivers
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Hoteres
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled (1991)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Who Watched as the Leopard changed its Spots
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
An Excellent Fetish #2
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
365 days
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Valley of the Fruitcakes
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
State Highway I
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Day Care Walkabouts
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Sub
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Pathology
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Virgin
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Rock and rose bed (The bed you make is the bed you lie in)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
There's no accounting for taste
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Retroflex
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Rock On
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Double Negative
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Taranaki
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled (Male Rock/Pop Singer)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Four days and nights...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Dragged Mass
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
I Hate Provincialism
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Free Exchange of Ideas No.2
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Free Exchange of Ideas No.6
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Christchurch (Mask). From the series: The Homely
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Dunedin (Landscape). From the series: The Homely
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington (Museum) 1998. From the series: The Homely
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Te Wairoa (Falls). From the series: The Homely
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ava at Stella in Ponsonby Road
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Slimline
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
0900 #1
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
0900 #2
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Untitled (Studded Suit)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
I can't forgive Descartes
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
the story of
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
View
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Self-portrait with back of pe'a, Basque Road, Newton Gully
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Self-portrait with front of pe'a, Basque Road, Newton Gully
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Self-portrait with side of pe'a, Basque Road, Newton Gully
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Tiara
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Choker
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Seaweed: Revelation
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Ndebele
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
There's no place like home
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Tangaroa
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Native Portraits n.19897
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Black carnival #1
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Genius Of The Heart
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Tristes Tropiques
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Eureka School
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Nietzsche on Whites Beach
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Serial Set
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Tu Pasifika
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Camowhaiwhai
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Untitled
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Ossuary IV: Convolvulus (bindweed). Obligare pacto (to bind by covenant)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ossuary I: Moana (sea). He wanaka ururu kapua (a canoe in which to dare the clouds of heaven)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Ossuary III: Mare Pacifica (Pacific Ocean). Imperium promovere (to advance the Empire)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
