Festoons and Facsimiles
Joanne Masding
Reference
SAS0089_001
Year
2017
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 120
Length: 130
Depth: 45
Length: 130
Depth: 45
Materials
Plaster (some invisible internal metal supports)
Current Location
Grand Union, Birmingham
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Floor-based
- Freestanding
About the Artwork
Freestanding plaster sculptures with casts of images from catalogue 'The British Museum' embedded in the surface. (The plaster picks up the fine relief of the ink on the glossy paper leaving a ghostly imprint.)
Background, history, commissioner of the work
Commissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Thematic/contextual information
The exhibition Festoons and Facsimiles was made for was accompanied by Cast Notes, which is both a work and exhibition interpretation, and offers some context to the piece http://www.joannemasding.com/files/joanne-masding-cast-notes.pdf