2015 Moons: white yellow red
Mary Bourne
2015 Moons: white yellow red
Mary Bourne
Reference
SAS0177_002
Year
2015
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 40
Length: 200
Depth: 4.5
Length: 200
Depth: 4.5
Materials
Marble and Travertine
Current Location
Artist's workshop, Moray
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Wall-mounted
Background, history, commissioner of the work
Made during the Royal Society of Sculptors Brian Mercer Residency at Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy. Pietrasanta is a town dating back to the Renaissance, full of sculpture workshops and skilled artisans who continue to work with sculptors from all over the world.
Thematic/contextual information
2015 was remarkable for its moons - huge harvest and blood moons contrasting with the cool white of the more "normal" moon. The moons were watching over the unfolding refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, then at its most intense in all its heartbreaking humanity and inhumanity. It was hard not to feel a sense of portent as the huge coloured moons hung in the sky above these scenes of desperation.