Velvet painter
Stuart Shepherd’s paintings on velvet are on show at the La Quete Gallery until September 14. Most of the work has been produced over the last two months in Christchurch. He lived and worked in New York from 1981 to 1988 and was trained in art at Ham, East Sydney Technical, and Whitney Museum in New York. He chose to paint on black vinyl-velvet because of its availability and visual appeal and also because he feels that velvet painting and velvet alone have powerful associations in our culture. One is the association with low art or bad art of carnivals and souvenir cushions; the other is the velvet of church regalia or of mvsterious Masonic ritual. Both associations he finds pleasing and he thinks both associations relate to the place that fine art generally has in people’s lives m New Zealand.
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Press, 6 September 1989, Page 27
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