ART WORKS
Prop I, II and New Acquisition, 1990

This was a series of sculptures incorporating images from archaeological journals. Prop I shows a scientist looking into a microscope, and the image in Prop II shows a hammer next to what look like the marks it has made in stone (present to indicate scale). Both works are black and white photographs sealed and mounted onto aluminium, propped in configurations with white painted gallery plinths.

There was also a photographic image showing binoculars against a stony surface called Stage. In three sections, this was 8ft high and 12ft across, hung on the wall, almost to the floor.

In New Acquisition a black and white photograph is separated from its glass cover and pinned down by a white gallery plinth. The photograph was taken at (the then but since refurbished) Victorian glass department of the V&A Museum in London. It shows a display of glass items in cabinets. It is linked to the Houses and Occupants series.

These works were made for Modern Medicine, an exhibition in Building One, London, curated by Carl Freedman, Damien Hirst and Billee Sellman in 1990.

 

Prop I
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Prop I
1990
Painted mdf, photograph on aluminium
61 x 122 x 122cm
Photo by Ed Woodman. 'Modern Medicine', Building One, London, 1990
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