Nelson curator resigns
PA Nelson The curator of Nelson’s Suter Art Gallery, Mr Tony Martin, has resigned amid a controversy over exhibited pictures by a Christchurch artist, Barry Cleavin. The gallery’s director, Mr Austin Davies, removed the two offending pictures, which have been criticised by Nelson City councillors, and viewed by the police. One of them depicts a skinned hare copulating with a naked woman, and the other, a naked woman with her genitals exposed. The exhibition was of 150 prints and 10 drawings. The artist, a lecturer in fine arts at the University of Canterbury, says the message of his work was to “push and probe prople to see what a raucous and horrifying world they lived in and thereby change their behaviour.”
Mr Martin’s resignation is in protest against the way two Nelson City councillors criticised the exhibition and gallery staff. The issue will be aired at a council meeting on July 5. A report in “The Press” yesterday said that Mr Tony King was the gallery’s curator who had resigned. This was incorrect. The curator in question is Mr Tony Martin.
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