How Strange When an Illusion Dies
Rachel Frances Sharpe
How Strange When an Illusion Dies
Rachel Frances Sharpe
Reference
SAS0137_002
Year
2019
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 150
Length: 120
Depth: 40
Length: 120
Depth: 40
Materials
Steel
Current Location
Studio storage (east end)
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Floor-based
- Freestanding
Background, history, commissioner of the work
This work was developing during a Creative Scotland funded residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studies in 2019.
Thematic/contextual information
This project explored Art Deco and Art Nouveau architecture and interior design in cinema as a backdrop for – speculative and recorded – LGBTQI+ histories during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Research stemmed from existing oral history archives, photographic documentation, literary sources and Hollywood memoirs under The Motion Picture code of the 1930s.
