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Born 1946, Auckland, New Zealand Richard Killeen graduated from the Auckland University School of Fine Arts in 1966. He was a recipient of a QEII Arts Council grant in 1976, when he visited the USA and Europe. In 1982 and 1986 he exhibited in the 6th Sydney Biennale and in 1984 was involved with ANZART at the Edinburgh Festival. He has regularly exhibited in New York and Sydney, as well as New Zealand. Killeen is most known for his distinctive wall works that consist of collections of images on cut out shapes of thin aluminium that are hung according to artist supplied parameters. The effect is of an almost random, disjunctive pattern of images that seeks to parallel Killeen’s view of the nature of perceived images. A major survey of Richard Killeen’s work ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ was mounted by the Auckland Art Gallery in 1999.
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