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    Peter Peryer

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1941, d.2018

    Chimpanzee

    • 1981
    • Photograph
    • Purchased, 1982
    • Reproduced with permission
    • 185 x 265mm
    • 88/168

    Tags: animals, cages (rooms), chimpanzees, climbing ropes, gaze (psychoanalytical concept), grasses (plants), grids (layout features), monochrome, zoos (built complexes)

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    Exhibition History

    Reproduced courtesy of Don Binney
    Menagerie: Animals from the Gallery's Permanent Collections
    Image: uploads/2021_08/MOTH.jpg
    More Animal than Human(e)
    Exposure: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
    Image: uploads/2022_07/88_168.jpg
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