Four Times Painting | 2007

Published 2007 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
26 pages
210 x 150mm, softcover, with colour illustrations
With essays by Christina Barton, Blair French, Roger Horrocks, Natasha Conland and Jan Bryant.
Design by Experimenta
Printed by Astra Print
ISBN 1-877309-12-5

This exhibition catalogue was published in association with Four Times Painting, 2007.

'In their various ways the artists in Four Times Paintings engage with painting's historical ambitions and failures, raising a host of temporal questions. Cotton considers how painting can function as a literal drawing out of history; his works are a kind of physical unearthing, where what is revealed in and through paint are the shards and fragments that have survived from the complex history of encounters between peoples. Dashper is preoccupied with modern art history, his painting practice functions as both homage and critique; allowing anecdote to inflect his sober surfaces, he seeks to situate mute abstraction by investing in it traces of his own history and location. Ingram makes time visible, literally, as paintings are brought into being, not by his hand but by a disembodied machine or by the arbitrary workings of artificial intelligence. And Thom takes time, to paint thing as she sees them, in a painstaking process the awkward results of which prove the incontrovertible gap between seeing and representing.'

— Excerpt from Four Times Painting by Christina Barton