Image credit: Penelope weaves and waits – Acrylic and polyurethane on wood. Marian Maguire, 2017

The UC Teece Museum is proud to present Visual Storytelling: a response to Homer by artist Marian Maguire.

Marian will talk about how Homer entered and influenced her artwork, both through text and Attic vase painting. Using ancient sources plus her own images, she will discuss how the stories changed once her imagination was ignited.

Christchurch artist Marian Maguire is best known for lithographs, etchings and paintings which re-contextualise ancient Greek vase painting. In The Odyssey of Captain Cook, The Labours of Herakles and Titokowaru’s Dilemma, she looked at New Zealand colonial history, slanting the viewpoint and questioning her country’s acceptance of the past and its impact on Māori/migrant relationships.

Feats, Pursuits and Endless Toil brought classical mythology to earthquake addled Christchurch, Goddesses questioned support of the status quo and her Odysseus and Penelope fireplaces tell Homer’s Odyssey with equal weight given to the male and female sides of the story.

Marian’s work has been exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and in the UK, Europe and Australia and was recently included in Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum.

Free entry, but seats are limited so please register to attend.

This event is part of a series of free short-format public talks for 2021.

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