All that glitters 2
Barbara Ash
All that glitters 2
Barbara Ash
Reference
SAS0132_001
Year
2019
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 60
Length: 33
Depth: 55
Length: 33
Depth: 55
Materials
Bronze, chain, gold leaf.
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- On a plinth
Background, history, commissioner of the work
This piece was funded and conceived by the artist and is part of an ongoing long term project exploring themes of girlhood, identity and freedom. It has been exhibited at various venues; including a 2 woman show with Laura Ford at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, the Royal West of England Academy Annual, “Beauty and Corruption” at the Crawford Museum and Art Gallery, Cork, and it was recently awarded the Marshwood Arts Prize; selected by Tania Kovats in the sculpture category in 2019.
Thematic/contextual information
“All that glitters 2” is a child-woman doll figure exploring ideas of the dynamics of beauty and expectation; sexuality and innocence; the rose can be seen as a beautiful accessory or as a ball and chain. My work has a preoccupation with toys, employing them as both fun, innocent play things but also as repositories of cultural conditioning.
Tania Kovats referred to my sculptures as “Stunning work, perplexing, awkward, confrontational sculptures to dream about as well as stand beside."
