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The museum itself interests Frances Upritchard. She absorbs countless details, objects, fabrics, jewels and furnishings. Some of these reappear in the textures and characters of the creatures she makes, such as in the grinning hockey sticks of Jealous Saboteurs.

The real art in Upritchard’s constructions is her ability to draw out the deviant humanity in inanimate things and the object-like qualities of the living. Upritchard has said, ‘I like the idea that some aliens came down to earth and took things away but everything got mixed up on the journey back.’ Essential to this feeling of disorientation is that her objects are all made by hand. Upritchard’s reanimation of the museum happens through the tactile activity of her hands, as she lends objects a metaphoric and literal new skin.

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  • Title: Jealous Saboteurs
  • Creator: Francis Upritchard
  • Creator Lifespan: 1976
  • Creator Nationality: New Zealand
  • Creator Gender: Female
  • Creator Birth Place: New Plymouth, New Zealand
  • Date Created: 2005
  • Physical Dimensions: w1230 mm (width only)
  • Description: Francis Upritchard was born in New Plymouth in 1976 and currently lives in London. She studied at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury and represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
  • Type: Installation
  • Rights: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2006
  • External Link: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
  • Medium: hockey sticks, plastic, modelling materials

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