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Living our fantasies - 27 Nov 2009
In an ideal world, each of
us would get to live out our fantasies. For many young girls this may be a
combination of ballerina, Wonder Woman, a flight attendant and ultimately for
some, the bride. How much our desire to be
‘someone else’ is fuelled by popular culture and an endless search for our own
identity, is a question Tracey Williams poses in her suite of work called Phantasyland, currently showing at Tauranga Art Gallery. Phantasyland is just one of the works in the Gifted exhibition, a selection of works gifted to The
Tauranga Art Gallery Trust, and on display at the Gallery until 31 January
2010. The works in the exhibition
all have a connection with the Bay of Plenty. In each case, the artist
represented lived, or still resides, in the region. Other artists in the
exhibition include Robin White, Elizabeth Bailey, Trevor Pye, Mark Braunias,
Edward Bullmore and Arthur Dagley. Tauranga Art Gallery does
not have an acquisitions budget but since opening in 2007 has received several
gifts of works including the significant Edward Bullmore collection in 2006,
followed by the Nigel Brown/Susan McLaughlin collection in 2007.
© 2009