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Blue Lady by Lester Hall
Print Code: 10086
NZ$495.00
Signed Edition
Image size in millimetres: 480 x 330Studio printed in Lester Hall’s studio. All artworks in this series printed by the artist on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper and K3 archival inks and signed below the image in pencil.
One of Lester’s new series of images available for the first time in late 2017. Lester tells us “When I was about six years old the Tretchikoff print ‘Chinese Girl’ now so ubiquitous arrived on the living room wall of my family home. That same work resides on my living room wall still. ‘Poll Tax’ came out of my studio over five years ago. It is a direct conversation about the surcharge on Chinese immigrants based solely on their race. Many Asian New Zealand families have identified strongly with the historical reference and update of character in the portrait. This new incarnation of the famous, now Kiwiana icon ‘Chinese Girl’ or Blue Lady as many call her is a move further forward into the ‘Third Space’ commentary of my work. Third space being where cultures meet, meld and unify as a blended outcome. We are entering a new stylistic phase with so many Asian influences and I feel it is pertinent to play these out, to relish and enjoy them. Pop culture becomes our fabric and ‘Blue Lady’ is an example of where my art is headed, pop art statements of Aotearoa, New Zealand".
Like this Lester Hall print? Discover more prints like Blue Lady by Lester Hall in these collections at New Zealand's specialist art print gallery since 1966:
Lester Hall Prints
Editions from New Zealand printmakers
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New Prints available
One of Lester’s new series of images available for the first time in late 2017. Lester tells us “When I was about six years old the Tretchikoff print ‘Chinese Girl’ now so ubiquitous arrived on the living room wall of my family home. That same work resides on my living room wall still. ‘Poll Tax’ came out of my studio over five years ago. It is a direct conversation about the surcharge on Chinese immigrants based solely on their race. Many Asian New Zealand families have identified strongly with the historical reference and update of character in the portrait. This new incarnation of the famous, now Kiwiana icon ‘Chinese Girl’ or Blue Lady as many call her is a move further forward into the ‘Third Space’ commentary of my work. Third space being where cultures meet, meld and unify as a blended outcome. We are entering a new stylistic phase with so many Asian influences and I feel it is pertinent to play these out, to relish and enjoy them. Pop culture becomes our fabric and ‘Blue Lady’ is an example of where my art is headed, pop art statements of Aotearoa, New Zealand".
Like this Lester Hall print? Discover more prints like Blue Lady by Lester Hall in these collections at New Zealand's specialist art print gallery since 1966:
Lester Hall Prints
Editions from New Zealand printmakers
Portraits
New Prints available
