31. Nigel Brown b. 1949
Ambition
Oil on linen
150 x 82 cm
Signed & dated 2003
est. $12,000 - 18,000
Relative Size: Ambition
Relative size

Towers have long held a fascination for Nigel Brown. This dates back to school holidays spent in Whanganui, home of the Durie Hill War Memorial Tower. At Elam, his tutor Colin McCahon encouraged students to study monuments on hills, particularly One Tree Hill with its obelisk. In later life, living at Cosy Nook, Southland a tower was to be constructed in order to view sunsets by a macrocarpa shelter belt. Ambition is the artist's imaginary record of what that tower might look like. This painting marks the artist's transition from his spiritually powerful I Am series of paintings into the realms of business, power and vanity.

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