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Lifting my mother for as long as I can (2015)

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Lifting my mother for as long as I can (2015)

Artist

Campbell Patterson
Production Date

2015
Medium

single channel video, standard definition (SD), 4:3, colour, stereo sound, 19” LCD monitor
Size

3min 41sec
Credit

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Chartwell Collection, purchased 2015
Accession Number

2015/11
Accession Date

29 May 2015
Department

New Zealand Art
Classification

Audiovisual
Collection

AAGC

Exhibition history

Dialogues in Video Art: Works from the Chartwell Collection and Elam Artists

George Fraser Gallery, The University of Auckland

21/08/2025 — 26/09/2025

Performance Portraits

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

10/12/2016 — 08/04/2018

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