Provenance: Isobel Thom Jutta Giggenbach and Charlotte Fisher Cemetary Bridge Series, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, 1988

David Shennan was born in Scotland in 1965. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1974 and studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland 1989 - 1990 gaining a Master of Fine Arts, (First Class Honours). Major in uences in these early works may be likened to artist friends, Tony Fomison & Philip Clairmont. As a painter, I am always in search of an 'allusive' image. Appearing one way on the surface and then in time, shifting completely into something else. David Shennan, 2016