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| Artist |
Michael Donnelly |
| Title |
Deckard's Buddy Visits the Artist's Home on Good Friday |
| Year |
2008 |
| Medium |
Pencil, pen and ink, gouache, oil / wax crayon, and collage elements on two sheets of Fabriano watercolour paper |
| Height |
87 |
| Width |
114 cm (Max Dimensions) |
| Price |
Sold |
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| From the Exhibition |
'Other Lands', Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Caulfield, Vic. 9 - 19 July 2009 |
A homage to the film Blade Runner. The somewhat enigmatic and foreign-tongued detective that worked with Harrison Ford's character, Deckard, in the 1982 Ridley Scott science fiction movie, appears to be departing from the artist's home. The back of his hunched, coat and hat wearing figure can be seen moving back to one of the hovercraft-like police vehicles that can both drive or fly through the air of the film's dystopic city. The viewer is somewhere inside the lounge room of the artist's home and can see through the windows to the street scene outside. On a coffee table in the centre of the work, in amongst the mix of paraphernalia that has accumulated, a collaged matchstick figure appears to be attached to a traditional palm leaf woven cross. The figure not only points to a religious context of the crucified Christ and Good Friday (an extinguished candle on the table also hints at this) but also references the detective's habit of leaving small origami or other manipulated items at the scenes of various crimes.
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