Nicola Farquhar, Rabbitskinned, 2024

Nicola Farquhar
Rabbitskinned, 2024
acrylic on canvas with painted dowel
700mm diameter

This work was included in Farquhar’s solo exhibition Stars, lands at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, developed while she was the gallery’s Aotearoa Visiting Artist. In her review for Art New Zealand’s Summer 24/25 issue, Victoria Wynne Jones describes Rabbitskinned, writing that “the round canvas boards appear as planets or suns, the painted dowels enable works to be read like kites and balloons…Farquhar continues to challenge the limits of painting as a physical object.”

In 2021, Farquhar showed with Sorawit Songsataya for our offsite project, Heavy Trees, Arms and Legs, a project which was further expanded in the subsequent 2022 publication of the same name. Farquhar was part of Ahoy! in 2004, and also presented a ‘gridlocked’ project with The Physics Room in 2003.

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Nicola Farquhar lives and works as an artist in Ōtautahi. Recent exhibitions include L.oen.nium at CoCA, Ōtautahi, 2022; Heavy trees, arms and legs, developed by The Physics Room in collaboration with Coastal Signs and the Suter Art Gallery; Listening, Twitching, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery; A Holotype Heart, Hopkinson Mossman; and Necessary Distraction: A painting show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.