"Smoke" to open at the Mary Newton Gallery

Sunny Jim 2008 by Gordon Crook

Smoke opens at the Mary Newton Gallery on Tuesday 3 March. It presents new work by Wellington artist Gordon Crook.

Crook has produced a new series of paintings around images of smoke and smoking – smokers, fires, clouds – that developed from the image above. Drawing on his childhood in England – especially a cereal box doll called Sunny Jim – and the memories of a tobacco plug-smoking uncle, the images at times interchange smoking and breathing underlining something of the impulse experienced by smokers.

“Gordon Crook continually impresses with fresh and contemporary imagery, and Smoke doesn’t disappoint. It provides many a good metaphor around the theme” said co-director Mary-Jane Duffy.

Smoke runs until 28 March 2009.

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