Home of Heroes and Sportsmen

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CreatorUnger, PatNameHome of Heroes and SportsmenDate Madec.1996Object TypePaintingMedium DescriptionOil and acrylic on paperObject NumberLU225Dimensionsactual 745 mm x 565 mmCredit LinePresented by Alyson Gardner in memory of her late husband Bruce Robson, 1945-2000.Further information‘Distinguishing Features: Cold Front III’ and ‘Home of Heroes and Sportsmen’ by Pat Unger (1928-2024) were exhibited in Passport Issue at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in 1996.

The exhibition “focused around the idea of the 'passport' with the passport applicant being in this case New Zealand.

Personal characteristics for this applicant are listed as: "first to see the light, first to see the night, having frequent cold fronts, being the home of heroes and sportsmen and exhibiting the behaviour of enthusiastically promoting the national culture." The subtle irony in these abstract works challenges many of our national and artistic assumptions and attitudes.

On a deeper level Passport Issue is also about form and content. The form is provided by the rather loose logic of the passport format. The content or meaning is realised through various snippets of reality. These stand in for the passport photograph mounted onto a page or space and layered with allusions to artistic styles and fashions. She includes bad 'white art' and bad 'black' art, the gestural brush stroke, the dribbled paint contrivance, repetition and of course the ubiquitous rubber stamp, the sign of authority's ultimate approval of identity. An identity that gives the applicant, at least temporarily, the right to be recognised.” (Pat Unger - Passport Issue', Bulletin, No.102, June/July 1996, p.2)

Unger graduated in painting from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1979 and exhibited regularly in Christchurch. She was also an ardent reviewer and writer of art.Artwork CopyrightAll rights reservedArt CollectionLincoln University Art CollectionKeywordsBuildings | hangatangaSport | hākinakina

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