Gavin Hipkins: Empire

This publication was published on the occasion of Hipkins' exhibition Second Empire at Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi (14 Feb -13 April 2008) while he was completing the McCahon residency (Dec 2007-Feb 2008)

Gavin Hipkins’ Empire series employs the artist’s well-known technique of contrasting two photographically based images within the one photo-montage. Wood engravings by renowned English illustrator Anton Lock are enlarged using a negative form and then juxtaposed with contemporary urban patches 

Published by Rim Books in association with Hamish McKay Gallery and Starkwhite.

36 pages, Softcover
200 x 200mm
Published 2008
ISBN: 9780473130824