Darcy Lange Explained

Darcy Bruce Espie Lange (22 September 1946 – 8 August 2005) was a New Zealand artist born in Urenui. Lange studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts (1964–1967) creating hard-edge abstract sculptures before studying at the Royal College of Art in London and shifting his focus to moving image and photography.[1]

Career

Beginning in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, Lange pioneered a social documentary practice with video, filming people in working environments such as schools, factories and farms. Among this body of work, Work Studies in Schools (1976–1977) has sustained significant attention. Beginning in 1976 in Birmingham, Lange videotaped a number of school lessons in action across three schools, each representing a different social class. The recordings were watched by Lange with the teachers and the students for commentary, and on occasion recorded again. Lange continued the processes in 1977 across four Oxfordshire schools.[2]

Lange returned to New Zealand in 1974, continuing his practice documenting working lives and, notably, Māori activism through the Maori Land Project (1977–1981). Working closely with photographer John Miller, Lange documented the conflict between Māori and the New Zealand government around the Ngāti Hine Block and Bastion Point land cases.[3] [4]

In 1979, Lange relocated to the Netherlands and worked with René Coelho to produce a programme for Nederlandse Omroep Stichting based on the Maori Land Project followed by a collaboration with the University of Utrecht titled The Maori Land Struggle. He subsequently contributed to the exhibition The Land of the Maori exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in 1980.[5]

Lange died in Auckland in 2005

In 2006, Mercedes Vicente curated the first retrospective of Lange's work at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, New Zealand.[6] [7]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

Collections

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lange, Darcy. Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Ikon Art Gallery. 2008. 9781904864509. Vicente. Mercedes. New Plymouth. 185.
  2. Book: Lange, Darcy. Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Ikon Art Gallery. 2008. 9781904864509. Vicente. Mercedes. New Plymouth. 199.
  3. Web site: Photoessay: Seeing the wood for the trees – Ngatihine (John Miller) Pacific Journalism Review. Pacific Media Centre. 27 December 2018.
  4. Book: Lange, Darcy. Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Ikon Art Gallery. 2008. 9781904864509. Vicente. Mercedes. New Plymouth. 200.
  5. Vicente. Mercedes. 2009. Darcy Lange. Camera Austria. 108. 35–49.
  6. Web site: Darcy Lange: study of an artist at work – Announcements – e-flux. e-flux.com. 27 December 2018.
  7. Web site: Curator revives 'lost' art. Stuff. 15 February 2012 . 27 December 2018.
  8. Web site: Landa Lan. A Documentation of Darcy Lange. 29 October 2018. tabakalera.eu. 27 December 2018.
  9. Web site: Darcy Lange: Enduring Time. Tate Etc.. 27 December 2018.
  10. Web site: Darcy Lange. Camera Austria. 27 December 2018.
  11. Web site: Work Studies in Schools – Programs – Slought. slought.org. 27 December 2018.
  12. Web site: Tribute to NZ video pioneer Darcy Lange at Ikon. December 10, 2008. www.scoop.co.nz. 27 December 2018.
  13. Web site: Darcy Lange. Adam Art Gallery. 27 December 2018.
  14. Web site: Darcy Lange: study of an artist at work – Announcements – e-flux. e-flux.com. 27 December 2018.
  15. Web site: Tribute to NZ video pioneer Darcy Lange at Ikon Scoop News. December 10, 2008. www.scoop.co.nz. 27 December 2018.
  16. Web site: The Future of Work The Dowse Art Museum. www.dowse.org.nz. en. 2019-09-18.
  17. Web site: A Century of Artists' Film in Britain: Programme 1: Work. Tate Etc.. 27 December 2018.
  18. Web site: Action Replay: Post-Object Art. artspace.org.nz. 27 December 2018.
  19. Book: Vicente, Mercedes . Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice . Springer Nature . 2023 . 9783031369032.
  20. Book: Darcy Lange : study of an artist at work. 2008. Ikon Gallery]. Lange, Darcy, 1946–2005., Vicente, Mercedes., Ikon Gallery., Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.. 9781904864509. [Birmingham|oclc=300400846].
  21. Book: Lange, Darcy. Video art. 2001. Dept. of Film, Television & Media Studies, University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Centre for Film, Television and Media Studies.. 978-0908689682. Auckland, N.Z.. 155718890.
  22. Web site: Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . collections.tepapa.govt.nz.
  23. Web site: Govett-Brewster Collection Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Len Lye Centre . govettbrewster.com.
  24. Web site: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision . www.ngataonga.org.nz.

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