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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Chips
2026
Laminated pool noodles
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Installaion view
2026
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Installaion view
2026
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Trizester (triptych)
2026
Canvas, metal rail
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
The Grater
2026
Canvas, stainless steel
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Corduroy Cowboy
The Grater (detail)
2026
Canvas, stainless steel
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
The Grater (detail)
2026
Canvas, stainless steel
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
The Grater (detail)
2026
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Chips - large
2026
Laminated pool noodles
Largest pictured 920 x 690 x 80mm
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Corduroy Cowboy
Chips - small
2026
Laminated pool noodles
665 x 520 x 80mm
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Potato Chip Bolo Tie (detail)
2026
Bronze, leather
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Corduroy Cowboy
Potato Chip Bolo Tie
2026
Bronze, leather
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Corduroy Cowboy
Corn Chip Bolo Tie (detail)
2026
Bronze, leather
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Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
Corduroy Cowboy
Corn Chip Bolo Tie
2026
Bronze, leather
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Corduroy Cowboy
Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank
10 Apr – 02 May 2026
In Corduroy Cowboy, oversized potato chips carved from pool noodles sit alongside a monumental canvas and stainless steel cheese grater. Cast bronze corn chip bolo ties slide along leather cords.
The materials don’t quite behave—soft things pretend to be hard, throwaway stuff is made permanent. It leans into humour and exaggeration as a way of circling the textures and mythologies of the artist’s experiences from her time living in the American Midwest.
Pool noodles stand in for processed food; bronze and steel hold onto things that probably don’t need holding onto. The works drift between sincerity and being a joke, somewhere between attachment and exaggeration, where the everyday starts to feel staged.
Corduroy Cowboy treats memory as something built up over time—uneven, a bit warped, and sometimes tacky. It pulls from roadside diners, convenience stores, and a kind of inherited Americana, sticking with the question of what “authentic” even means, when most of it was already artificial to begin with.
Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank is a self-portrait installation artist based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Social histories and the portrayal of cultures are central themes in her practice, and as a New Zealander with mixed ancestry (Chinese, European), her work often questions and explores cultural identifiers. Since graduating from Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with a Masters (Dist) Greenbank has exhibited in galleries and biennials in Aotearoa and internationally and her work is held in major public and private collections. This is her third solo exhibition at The National.
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