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Christopher Braddock is a Senior
Lecturer in the School of Art & Design at Auckland
University of Technology. He exhibits with Gow-Langsford
Gallery in Auckland/Sydney and BartleyNees Gallery
in Wellington. His recent work focuses on issues of
archiving the body in relation to museum and other
collections.
In 1994 he was included in Station
to Station: The Way of the Cross, 14 contemporary
artists, Auckland Art Gallery, curated by William
McAloon.
In 1998 he featured in Sharp & Shiny: Fetishism
in Contempory New Zealand Art, Govett Brewster Art
Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by John Hurrell.
Votive Mutation, 1999, marked a turning point for
Braddock in its exploration of ornamentation, religion,
fetishism and the body. Current exhibitions include
the New Zealand Jewellery Biennale, Grammar: Subjects
& Objects, curated by Deborah Crowe on behalf
of the Dowse Art Museum, Wellington and Changing Spaces,
an outdoor sculpture installation for the New Zealand
Arts Festival 2002 for which his work focuses on an
ornamentation of monumental minimalist aesthetics.
Braddock is one of the founding
curators of pp:
an annual artist initiated event of visual and performing
arts based in Auckland.
Collections that hold his work
include: the Museum of New Zealand , Te Papa Tongarewa,
the Auckland Art Gallery, the Robert McDougall Art
Gallery, Christchurch and the NZ Post, Wellington.
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