This morning I
took the children to the Waikato Museum to see the Ralph
Hotere/Bill Culbert show, which they loved, and also Pictures
at an Exhibition. They recognised from what is on our walls works by Gretchen
Albrecht, James Ross, Nigel Brown, Mary
McIntyre and Pat Hanly. What surprised me was that I knew/was friends with/had
dealings with 18 of the artists shown. Including Mary, who I now realise was a
pioneer of photobombing.
We’ve all seen
Benedict Cumberbatch photobombing U2 at the Oscars in March 2014:
Here is Mary in
1984 – thirty years earlier! – photobombing
New Zealand’s then-Prime Minister in her painting Mickey Mouse and Robert Muldoon. That’s her as the avenging angel. This
painting was based on a photo from the NZ
Herald in which Muldoon stood next to Mickey Mouse at Auckland Airport and
held a jar of jellybeans: something to do with Ronald Reagan, from memory. It hangs
opposite our front door so is the first thing any visitor to our house sees:
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