부산대학교 도서관

(b Auckland, April 10, 1946). New Zealand painter. From the mid-1960s he worked in a huge variety of painting styles, both figurative and abstract, before inventing the ‘cut-out’ in 1978. Each cut-out consists of mainly appropriated images painted on shapes cut from sheet aluminium. These are hung in a cluster, with the arrangement left to whoever is hanging them. The invention of the cut-out format was a breakthrough, allowing Killeen to combine heterogeneous images in works of encyclopedic breadth. It also permitted what he called ‘compositional democracy’, allowing component images to remain open to interpretation and free association by the viewer. The images in Killeen’s first cut-outs were simple silhouettes, as in Collection from a Japanese Garden 1937 (1978; New Plymouth, NZ, Govett-Brewster A.G.). Later the images became more internally developed and complex and the styles and subject-matter more varied, as in From the Cairo Museum (1985; Wellington, NZ, Queen Elizabeth II A. Council Col.). Since the mid-1980s he drew increasingly on feminist ideas, to explore the gendered nature of images. Some cut-outs make use of computer graphics, for example ...