Accession No

2009.26


Description

Screen-print by Tiabe titled ‘Helicopter’, September 1968,


Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Highlands


Period


Source

Strathern, Marilyn (Prof.) [collector and donor]r]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

2009.26


Cultural Affliation


Material

paper; pigment


Local Term


Measurements

745mm x 1000mm


Events

Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Previously displayed in the donor’s rooms at Girton College.
(Bio) Tiabe was from the Southern Highlands, but met Georgina Bier when she ran art workshops at the Laloki Mental Home, Port Moresby, 1967-8. This produced PNG's first "outsider" artists, including Tiabe, Kupialdo, Sukoro, Hape and Mathias, whose artwporks were shown at the university library in 1968. Some of his works such as ‘Accident’ distrust of Western technology.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
Print, red on white paper, signed and titled ‘Helicopter’ (September 1968). Print shows a red figure with blue eyes in a red helicopter, with a red and blue shape below, ?part of the helicopter.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa


Loan (Exhibition)
Royal Academy of Arts, 14/09/2018 to 09/12/2018, Oceania
Event Date 14/9/2018
Author: Rachel Hand


Context (Display)
Exhibited: Mathius Kuage: Artist of Papua New Guinea, 17 March- 21 April 2009.
Event Date 24/5/2019
Author: rachel hand


FM:265806

Images (Click to view full size):