Grant Lingard
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Grant Lingard was a New Zealand born artist
who, although a painting
graduate, focused on minimalist sculptural installations. He achieved note with the 1994 ARTNOW exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
. He was also involved in the Tales Untold project. Lingard focused on creating a visual language over the course of his ten year career. Lingard used everyday materials recontextualised into a gallery context, hoping make the viewer see the links he was drawing. His work is conceptually similar to Félix González-Torres
.
A scholarship in his name is offered at the University of Canterbury
, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who, although a painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
graduate, focused on minimalist sculptural installations. He achieved note with the 1994 ARTNOW exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum and art gallery of New Zealand, located in Wellington. It is branded and commonly known as Te Papa and Our Place; "Te Papa Tongarewa" is broadly translatable as "the place of treasures of this land".The museum's principles...
. He was also involved in the Tales Untold project. Lingard focused on creating a visual language over the course of his ten year career. Lingard used everyday materials recontextualised into a gallery context, hoping make the viewer see the links he was drawing. His work is conceptually similar to Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...
.
A scholarship in his name is offered at the University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...
, Christchurch, New Zealand.