Books
Parallel Universe: The Art and Design of Roy Good
by Edward Hanfling Te Uru, Auckland 2018
DON ABBOTT
Roy Good has been pursuing modernism for 50 years, not just as a proponent, but also an advocate and a loyal follower. Parallel Universe, published to coincide with a survey exhibition of the same name at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, presents a comprehensive survey of that half-century, and makes an elegant and informed argument for the artist’s chosen pursuit.
The book, in which he focused on the geometrical elements of Good’s paintings. The sixth essay is by Andrew Paul Wood and looks at Good’s career as a designer―he worked at Television New Zealand from 1966 to the mid-1980s and also created logos for such enterprises as New Zealand’s pavilion at the 1988 Brisbane expo and Seville’s Expo 92. For several generations of television viewers, Good defined how things looked on the small screen. His influence in this area cannot be underestimated; his time at TVNZ coincided with a flourishing of local production and the domination of television as an entertainment medium.
