Andrew Drummond (artist)
Andrew Drummond (born 1951 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand painter and sculptor. He attended University of Waterloo in Canada, graduating in 1976. He was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow in 1980. Information. Andrew Drummond tends to focus on process and ritual while contemplating ideas of location. He considers the entanglements of the human body, ecology, and dislocated histories within the landscapes of New Zealand. In the 1970s, he created several documented performance works. Drummond lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand. He earned his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and  is currently a senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts. He is represented by Jonathan Smart gallery in Christchurch, Page Blackie gallery in Wellington and Antoinette Godkin gallery in Auckland. Honours and awards. In 2007 Drummond was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sculpture Andrew Drummond has received the following awards: Works. Andrew Drummond works with a variety of media and materials. His work includes process-based installation, photography, figurative and symbolic imagery. He had an exhibition at the Wellington City Gallery in 1981 titled "Andrew Drummond: Works 80." Public  sculpture and commissions. Drummond has received many commissions for both private and public sculptures. Controversy. As part of the Canterbury Society of Arts 1978 festival "Platforms" Drummond performed "Crucifixion". He was fixed to a diagonally shaped cross while a latex skin was created on his naked body, once formed the skin was shed from his body and he left the stage. Drummond wore a gas mask throughout to protect himself from the ammonia generated by the drying latex, he was also connected to an ECG machine so observers could monitor his emotional state. For the duration of the festival the  discarded latex skin was laid out on the cross and exhibited with Polaroid photographs taken during the performance plus other detritus from the performance. Two people in the audience took offence at the nudity and reported the performance to the police. The police laid charges (under Section 3(d) of the Police Offences Act.), when eventually heard in court the behaviour was found to be 'ill-mannered, in bad taste, crude and offensive', but the charges were dismissed.