Public Collections

Fourteen works, 1982–2010 — the largest holding of Radford's work anywhere, acquired over twenty-seven years. Prodigal Child (2010) is on permanent outdoor display in the sculpture garden at Pah Homestead; entry is free.

• Walking the Line, 1982 — acrylic, graphite and gesso on canvas, 1180 × 1740 mm (09.190)
• Artist in a Landscape with Trees, 1984 — acrylic on paper, 555 × 755 mm (84.017)
• Arrivals and Departures, Those Who Must Wait Go, 1987 — oil on paper, 740 × 1100 mm (87.014)
• Untitled, 1987 — colour lithograph, edition 12/20, 600 × 800 mm (555.131)
• Here We Are in Meadowbank, 1988 — acrylic on paper, 760 × 1120 mm (88.049)
• The Flame Tree — acrylic and gold leaf on board, 590 × 785 mm (91.101)
• Plaster Drawing — plaster and graphite on paper, 560 × 770 mm (93.015)
• Woman and Bike — oil on paper, 460 × 670 mm (97.100)
• Na, 1999 — acrylic on aluminium, 120 × 150 mm (99.109)
• Slump, 2000 — acrylic on etched, primed aluminium, 640 × 1300 mm (01.008)
• Topic of Capricorn, 2002 — acrylic on aluminium, c. 280 × 470 mm (02.114)
• Untitled, 2002 — oil on cardboard, 100 × 100 mm (02.192)
• Tuamotu, 2003 — acrylic on canvas, 1400 × 1400 mm (03.161)
• Prodigal Child, 2010 — Hardcote and polystyrene, height 1600 mm (11.073)

Accession numbers in brackets. Works without a year are dated here only by their accession year.

At least eight works on paper, 1985–1987, including the complete Those who stay and those who must go lithograph series, printed at Muka Studio, Grey Lynn, and launched there on 21 March 1987.

• Those who stay and those who must go, 1987 (1987-0023-1), and parts (a)–(d) (CA000933/029/0020/001–004)
• Untitled, 1987 (CA000931/003/0091)
• Untitled, 1987 (CA000933/019/0041)
• Untitled, 1985 (CA000933/017/0007)
• The hand-lettered invitation to the lithograph launch, Muka Studio, 1987

Marching Girls — pencil and acrylic on paper, 570 × 780 mm. Purchased 1982 (82/57).

The earliest confirmed institutional purchase of Radford's work. Radford also showed in the Gallery's group exhibition Gruesome! in 1999.

(Take a Walk in the) Land of Shadows — acrylic on canvas, 1255 × 1470 mm, 1985. Purchased from the Goodman-Suter Biennale 1986 with the Goodman-Suter Fund (768).

The Suter's description cites Philip Guston as an influence and identifies the title as from the Talking Heads song "Memories Can't Wait" (1979).

The Golden Shaka, 2017 — a gilded shaka hand on a stone plinth in the hotel gardens, commissioned for the hotel.

Flotsam — a clinker-built dinghy hull stood on end as a Cycladic head, first shown at Headland Sculpture on the Gulf and since installed permanently on the island.

Will We Be at War Soon? — acrylic on paper, 1987. Reproduced on the firm's Season's Greetings card.

Gallery ephemera: RKS Art exhibition flyers, a catalogue, and a photograph of Paul Radford at a gallery opening, c. 1985–1991.