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Artworks
Neil Haddon b. 1967
Flowers from Gauguin (covert), 2025oil on aluminium panel70 x 65 cmBG10895SoldThese paintings, drawn from Paul Gauguin’s A Vase of Flowers (National Gallery, London), extend my long-standing enquiry into migratory aesthetics. By fragmenting and reassembling Gauguin’s floral still lifes, I approach...These paintings, drawn from Paul Gauguin’s A Vase of Flowers (National Gallery, London), extend my long-standing enquiry into migratory aesthetics. By fragmenting and reassembling Gauguin’s floral still lifes, I approach them as sites of aesthetic espionage—objects to be spied upon, copied, and disguised. Flowers migrate across contexts: from colonial gardens to European museums, from the canvases of the nineteenth century to contemporary Lutruwita/Tasmania. In looping and stretching their forms, or concealing them within covert layers, I explore how beauty, displacement, and deception converge in paint, unsettling the ornamental to expose entwined histories of desire and power.1of 2