What If, Abel Tasman Francis van Hout

Comprised of 240 painted Delft 'tiles' on paper, the installation playfully disrupts ideas of decoration, painting, and craft. Mass produced and hand painted, What If, Abel Tasman touches on cultural colonisation, and perhaps more pragmatically, the colonisation of the working painter's studio by wet works waiting to dry. Francis van Hout studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury and has exhibited nationally and internationally for over two decades.

Francis van Hout is a Christchurch based painter who studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury. Van Hout has exhibited nationally and internationally for over two decades.