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Work Type:sculpture
Date of work:2006
Materials:medium: watercolour, paper, African wengé, lignum vitae, purple-tack, light bulb, electrical fittings, flex, wire, plug

Measurements:height: 43 cm

width: 58 cm

depth: 58 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:construction, painting
Description:
Selectors' Comments:
There's a strangeness to these artefacts that changes how I read the different parts. Furniture/art/decoration – which is the sovereign form? For me this puzzling reads as a satirical take on the economy of art reception, consumption, and the homogeneity of some corporate and domestic art displays. Look closely and there's a quirkiness to how they're made. The hippo has slipped off its fake Blu Tack, and there are blobs of the stuff elsewhere that create deliberate flaws.


Lamps, paintings, a shriving, striving between still sculptural object, picture and function. The paint describes, the lump of weight upon the triangulated surface holds it still.
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Source:"Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007" exhibition catalogue
Date of source:2007