Sea Piece

1987

Barbara Tuck

Accessible

1987–Current

  • Foyer, Basement, Building 105 (The ClockTower or Old Arts Centre), City Campus, University of Auckland, CBD, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Type

  • Painting

Medium

  • Acrylic paint
  • Canvas

Dimensions

  • H2430 x W3660mm

Barbara Tuck, 'Sea Piece' (1987), University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021.

Artists
Credit

The University of Auckland Art Collection

Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

'Sea Piece' is painted as two panels, forming a diptych. In a painterly manner, Barbara Tuck has depicted a series of overlapping images of boats ranging from waka to dinghy. A tree stump indicates the price of these vessels on the landscape, as trees were felled to build them.