"There are gaps in every aspect of Voodoo Dog to allow the viewer to bring life to it - questions for us to answer. It’s a jigsaw puzzle where there’s always a piece missing. We are left unsure how much is fact, how much fiction. Like that stranger on a bar stool, Nicol may be pulling our leg. The real dog story could be the reverse: his three-legged dog the inspiration for his own three-legged sculpture".
Voodoo Dog (2011)
Other works by Gray Nicol
Gray Nicol
Construction of a Cube (1976)
The artist methodically constructs a wooden cube in real time.
Gray Nicol
C.U. Madonna (2009)
European and South Pacific choral music accompanies a sculpted image of a mother and child.
Gray Nicol
Duck Calling (1978)
An absurdist performance piece for shotgun, duck and bandage that continues the artists interest in signs and signals of representation.
Related essay
Gray Nicol's Voodoo Dog
Gray Nicol's Voodoo Dog
Essay
In the second essay in 2018's Summer Reading Series Mark Amery reflects on the video work of Gray Nicol.