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ROY GOOD - Oblique Column - Rua Pango / Toru Ma
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold
$8,500
Live Auction
The Silich Collection Part 1
ARTIST
ROY GOOD (b. 1945)
Size
180 x 150
Description
Acrylic on canvas
Signature
Signed, inscribed Rua / Toru & dated 2011 verso
Provenance
Purchased from the Artist Wallace Art Awards finalist, 2011
Literature
p. 34 Parallel Universe, The Art and Design of Roy Good, Edward Hanfling, Te Uri Waitakare Contemporary Gallery, 2018.
Roy Good has been prominent in both the art and design
fields for 52 years. After graduating from Christchurch’s
Ilam School of Art, he moved to Auckland in 1966, and
began a long association with Television New Zealand (then
NZBC), including a stint as Head of Design from 1983-89.
As a painter, Good exhibited at the Barry Lett Galleries in
the early 1970s, then the Petar/James Gallery, where he
was one of a group of abstract artists, including Mrkusich,
O’Sullivan, Scott, Thornley and Walters, who, spurred on
by their far-sighted dealer Petar Vuletic, rejected more
popular local subjects and styles in an attempt to match
international standards. In the 1990s Good was frequently
engaged in high-profile corporate design projects, and he
also taught part-time at the Manukau School of Art and
Design and the Auckland School of Interior Design.
In 2007-8, Lopdell House Gallery in Auckland held a survey
of his work curated by Ed Hanfling, In Good Form – The
Abstract Art of Roy Good, 1967-2007, accompanied by a
book of the same title.
In 2018 to mark the 50 years of art practice and exhibiting,
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery in Auckland
published a book titled Parallel Universe - the Art & Design
of Roy Good which was launched with an exhibition of the
same title at the gallery in Titirangi. The following year the
exhibition was hosted by the Centre of Contemporary Art
in Christchurch, the artist’s hometown. Roy lives and works
in Auckland.
Exhibited
Wallace Finalists Exhibition The Dowse Wellington 2011:
Parallel Universe, The Art and Design
of Roy Good CoCA, Christchurch 2019