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Work Type:	sculpture
Date of work:	1999
Materials:	medium: iron, electric motor, rack and pinion, canvas, perspex and paint
Measurements:	height: 200 cm width: 60 cm depth: 50 cm
Style Period:	contemporary art
Subject:	machine, mechanical, painting, canvas

Description:	Natasha Kidd's automatic Painting Machine dips a canvas repeatedly into a vat of white paint, for the duration of the exhibition. As the paint adheres, horizontal lines appear across the surface of the canvas and stalactites of paint form along the bottom edge. Though they are a record of their own mechanical production, each canvas produced will be unique. [MORE] [LESS] Natasha Kidd's automatic Painting Machine dips a canvas repeatedly into a vat of white paint, for the duration of the exhibition. As the paint adheres, horizontal lines appear across the surface of the canvas and stalactites of paint form along the bottom edge. Though they are a record of their own mechanical production, each canvas produced will be unique.

Source:	From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.

Date of source:	1999