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How to turn Te Papa into a Junk Shop

10 Jun 2004
Courtesy of NZ Listener by William McAloon SO - YOU MADE IT?, by Judy Darragh, Te Papa, Wellington (until August 29). Judy Darragh could be seen as the ideal Te Papa artist. Her work mixes…

Courtesy of NZ Listener

by William McAloon

SO - YOU MADE IT?, by Judy Darragh, Te Papa, Wellington (until August 29).
Judy Darragh could be seen as the ideal Te Papa artist. Her work mixes high and low, art and craft, the real and the fake. It's abundant and excessive, it messes with notions of taste, and - at times anyway - addresses the visual construction of New Zealand identity. Maybe.

So you Made it?