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Peter Peryer 'Octopus'
Estimate:
$4,000 - $7,000
Passed
Live Auction
203 'The world is a strange place' - The Grant Kerr Photography Collection
ARTIST
Peter Peryer
Description
Peter Peryer
Octopus
gelatin silver print
title inscribed, signed and dated 1985 on artist’s label affixed verso
355 x 335mm
Illustrated: Mary Barr (ed), Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art (Wellington, 1986), p. 71.
Exhibited: ‘Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art’, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 September 1986-1 February 1987.
Collection: An edition of this photograph is held in the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui.
For the second time in a month, I have been inspired by something that I have seen in a fish shop. A new business, recently opened in New Plymouth, is selling fish caught by their own boat, and sold straight to the public. Most days their boat arrives around 2 pm. Today while there to buy a whole fish for the BBQ tonight, I noticed they had an octopus for sale. It had been arranged so that one of its eyes was in the middle looking straight at customers. I felt some sorrow for the creature, finding it hard not to think of how it must have died in fear. All the same I felt that if I was to have clear access to it… I need to perhaps buy a whole octopus, arrange it myself, and see if I can do a much improved version of the above image. Or maybe I could pay the shop to give me freer access to it. I’m not sure. — Peter Peryer
Octopus
gelatin silver print
title inscribed, signed and dated 1985 on artist’s label affixed verso
355 x 335mm
Illustrated: Mary Barr (ed), Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art (Wellington, 1986), p. 71.
Exhibited: ‘Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art’, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 September 1986-1 February 1987.
Collection: An edition of this photograph is held in the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui.
For the second time in a month, I have been inspired by something that I have seen in a fish shop. A new business, recently opened in New Plymouth, is selling fish caught by their own boat, and sold straight to the public. Most days their boat arrives around 2 pm. Today while there to buy a whole fish for the BBQ tonight, I noticed they had an octopus for sale. It had been arranged so that one of its eyes was in the middle looking straight at customers. I felt some sorrow for the creature, finding it hard not to think of how it must have died in fear. All the same I felt that if I was to have clear access to it… I need to perhaps buy a whole octopus, arrange it myself, and see if I can do a much improved version of the above image. Or maybe I could pay the shop to give me freer access to it. I’m not sure. — Peter Peryer
Condition
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