Totems-Epiphyllum-Hybrid 1986



Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 160 x 200

signed, dated and titled [on reverse: ‘Howard Arkley / 1986 / Totems-Epiphyllum-Hybrid’]

Private collection, Melbourne

First shown in HA Tolarno 9/86. The left-hand section re-works Agave Parviflora 1985, and the tubular form to the right (behind some sort of mechanical apparatus) is similar to the central motif in The Cacti Succulents (1986), also exhibited in the 1986 Tolarno show.

Provenance

  • owner recorded in Spray research card c.1996 and NGVA retrospective planning notes 2006

Exhibited

  • HA Tolarno 9/86, cat.2
  • ‘Ten by Ten’, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melb., 11/87, cat..4
  • HA Monash 1991, cat.60 (details as above)
  • HA retrospective 2006-7 (all 3 venues; as Totem-Epiphyllum-Hybrid)

Literature

  • Dumbrell 1987 (‘Ten by Ten’ exh.cat.), p.11 (B&W ill.)
  • Spray 86 (ill.)