Grate
Otto Gobey
Grate
Otto Gobey
Reference
SAS0164_001
Year
2023
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 120
Length: 120
Depth: 40
Length: 120
Depth: 40
Materials
Oak, Ash, Willow, pine base.
Current Location
Carmarthenshire
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Floor-based
- Freestanding
- On a plinth
Background, history, commissioner of the work
This piece was made for the 2023 New Contempories exhibition at the RSA, it is assembled with hand hewn and sawn timbers from key places I have lived and studied, there is Ash from Stroud where I was born, willow from Edinburgh where I studied, and Oak from Wales where I live now.
Thematic/contextual information
Grate is part of an ongoing series looking at how we as a species try and control the flow of water through our towns and cities. The grate itself is old, even, and bent, it has fought no debris in its tines all that remains is its form and the memory or filtration.