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    Telling Back Stories

    May 14, 2021 4 minutes
    (Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o
    Tāmaki, gift of the artist 1982)

    The Back of the Painting

     by Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary & Jenny Sherman

    Te Papa Press, Wellington 2021 DON ABBOTT

    It is no secret that the verso of a painting is a place for stories. Just the other day at the International Art Centre Luke took Peter Siddell’s off the wall and showed the back to us. There was a First Prize certificate from the 1971 Easter Show, a letter from the artist and a newspaper article with a picture of Siddell in scuba diving garb. We stood and silently absorbed the tales that the back and the front of this object

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