Rose Meyer

Acrylic on wallpaper 276 x 53.2 cm 

I remember being told a story about my grandparents and their perpetual difference of opinion on what colour to paint over the wallpaper in the hallway.

Eileen’s cheerful yellow preference calling out from her potting wheel at one end of the house, Pat’s practical grey reply emerging from his workshop at the other. A playful back and forth over the years, a mantra, a dichotomy of colour describing character more than merely paint preference.

Eileen passed in 1992, Pat in 2014.

The hallway remained unpainted.

Pat and Eileen, installed in Iteration 10, mothermother at the 2021 Auckland Art Fair