SMASHED MYTH STUDY, 2010

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
27 November 2019
33

SHANE COTTON

born 1964, New Zealand
SMASHED MYTH STUDY, 2010

synthetic polymer paint on paper

77.0 x 56.5 cm

signed, dated and inscribed with title lower right: ‘SMASHED MYTH STUDY’ Shane Cotton 2010

Estimate: 
$5,000 – 8,000
Provenance

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
The Mainland Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in September 2010

Exhibited

Smashed myth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 21 August – 25 September 2010

Catalogue text

Shane Cotton lives and works in Palmerston North, New Zealand

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 – 2018 Black Hole, Kronenberg Wright, Sydney, and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016 Exploded Worlds, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2016 Dirt Cache, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 Baseland, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2012 – 13 The Hanging Sky, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Campelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales; and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2012 WHAKAWHITI ARIA: TRANSMISSION, Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand
2010 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2009 Art in the Contemporary Pacific,Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2007 Turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamāki, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 Expanded, The Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2004 Shane Cotton Survey 1993-2003, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamāki, Auckland, New Zealand, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

SELECTED LITERATURE
Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky, exhibition catalogue, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2013
French, B., Shane Cotton: The Extended Art of Looking, Gow Langsford Gallery and Creative New Zealand Publishing, 2008.
Strongman, L. (ed.), Shane Cotton, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand and Victoria University Press, 2004
Tyler, L., Shane Cotton, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1998

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamāki, Auckland, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington City Council, Wellington, New Zealand

REPRESENTED BY
Hamish McKay, Wellington
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
ROSSIROSSI, London and Hong Kong