Richard Killeen

Richard John Killeen ONZM (born 1946)[1] is a significant New Zealand painter, sculptor and digital artist.Killeen was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where his lecturers included Colin McCahon, before graduating in 1966.He has won a number of awards, including the QE2 Arts Fellowship, and has been the subject of several major exhibitions.[2] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to painting.[3] His early cut-outs reflected Killeen's "discontent with the compression caused by the four static points of the frame," and an answer was found in their "off-stretcher presentation.
paintersculptordigital artistElam School of Fine ArtsColin McCahon2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee HonoursOfficer of the New Zealand Order of MeritThe GroupBarry Lett GalleriesPetar James GalleryDon DriverRudi GopasMilan MrkusichPhilip TrusttumGordon WaltersPeter McLeaveyPeter WebbBrooke/Gifford GalleryAlexa JohnstonBiennale of SydneyArt Gallery of New South WalesSarjeant GallerySue Crockford GalleryFrancis PoundWaikato Museum of Art and HistoryMuseum of Contemporary ArtIan WeddeJohn WalshTe Tuhi Centre for the ArtsManukau City