A National Partners exhibition from the Arts Council Collection

19.03.16 – 03.07.16

a crucial role in the health and wellbeing of societies and humanity WELCOME as a whole, and that everyone is an artist. His philosophy is expressed in Welcome to AT HOME, the first in a his famous statement that peeling series of exhibitions curated from the a potato, if done consciously, was Arts Council Collection as part of the a creative process. Preparing food National Partners Programme to mark was an important element of his the Collection’s seventieth anniversary. practice and he was shown in a TV AT HOME relaunches the Bothy documentary in 1979 cooking a meal Gallery following its extensive in the huge kitchen in his studio in refurbishment, supported by Arts Düsseldorf. Intuition ... instead of Council and a significant a cook-book encourages us not to public giving campaign, and highlights recreate an existing recipe, but to exquisite works of domestic scale. follow our gut feelings in cooking, Through the familiar touchstones creative processes and life itself. of home and domestic objects, the exhibition shares over 40 works Richard Billingham (UK 1970) from 1930 to 2010 and casts light Untitled (RAL 49) (1995) on changes in art during that time SFA4 colour photograph mounted including the highly influential on aluminium appropriation of ‘ready-made’ objects Shortlisted for the in as pioneered by Marcel Duchamp, 2001, English photographer and the emergence of photography as video artist Billingham is known an art form, and . especially for photographs of his Once the home of the Head family, which were originally intended Gardener, the Bothy Gallery was built as preparatory works for paintings around 1810 and is a historic part of but became an important series in the Bretton Estate. We understand their own right. Being an honest home to be a dwelling place but of depiction of his alcoholic father, Ray, and overweight tattooed mother, Liz, course it is far more than that, being , Relationships, 1991. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London a retreat, a safe space, people we © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2016 Billingham’s photographs nevertheless love, and a collection of memories. are often tender and sympathetic. This exhibition and related activities A contemporary documentation of reference the gallery as former real life, the photographs reinforce dwelling, different ideas of home, that home might not be an ideal as well as the sense of YSP as a space or family, but there can still sanctuary for many and our continued be love and comfort in less than work with hard-to-reach communities, ideal circumstances. including those who have made the Bothy Gallery region their home whether by choice Terence Bond (UK 1960) or forced migration. Untitled (Untitled) (1995) pop art, which had been famously of aviator glasses, immediately coconut fibre and ink developed by artists such as Andy associated with Tom Cruise’s Gifted to the Arts Council Collection ABOUT THE ARTS COUNCIL Warhol and appropriated images character in the film. Mirrored on the by the influential collector Charles A Saatchi, Untitled is a witty reference COLLECTION AND from mass culture. Arman’s early reverse, though, the viewer’s gaze NATIONAL PARTNERS to the pervasive argument of Marcel Gabor Altorjay (Hungary 1946) Accumulation sculptures highlight is reflected inwards in examination Duchamp, who said that any object Object for Short-Circuit (1968) the strangeness and inhumanity of of society’s complex relationship 2016 marks the seventieth anniversary selected by an artist was transformed electric plug and cable mass production, through gathering with warfare and its machines. of the Arts Council Collection, the together identical objects in repeated into an artwork because it was Altorjay fled to Western Europe in UK’s most widely seen collection of forms. Untitled presents a pair of selected by an artist. Duchamp 1967, having come to the attention Jordan Baseman (USA 1960) modern and contemporary British shop-bought, factory produced shoes famously pioneered this strategy of the Hungarian state security Boy (1995) cotton and metal art. The celebrations include the in an acrylic frame that look, perhaps in 1917 when he presented a urinal offices for his avant-garde artist Baseman established an early and commissioning of eight new works on a plinth and called it Fountain. not coincidentally, similar to Warhol’s successful career as a sculptor that will go on display across the UK practice, which included organising This has been a very important aspect shoe designs from his early career but, following pressure from a throughout 2016; two new touring the first ‘happening’ in his country of art of the last century and freed as a commercial artist. commercial gallery to make works exhibitions – Night in the Museum, in 1966 – a partly improvised piece artists from traditional representation. that could be sold, he decided to curated by Ryan Gander, and Drawn of performance art. Object for Short- move away from the production of from Life: People on Paper; and the Circuit is the epitome of a useless, Bill Brandt material/materialistic objects and National Partners Programme, self-fulfilling object as might plug (Germany–London 1904–83) which will deepen the Collection’s into itself, but is incapable as the flex B instead began working with film. A Sheffield Kitchen (1937) longstanding relationship with is too short. It could be interpreted He is currently Reader in Time Based gelatin silver print museums and galleries around as a comment on the Kafkaesque Fiona Banner (UK 1966) Media and Head of Sculpture at ‘The extreme social contrast, during the country and enable many more bureaucratic systems of his homeland Inside-Out Aviator Glasses (1994) the prestigious Royal College of Art, those years before the war, was visually people to visit Collection exhibitions. in the Communist era, but also on the aluminium, glass and metal London. Boy is part of a continued very inspiring for me. I started by The National Partners are the Towner role of the art object in culture, which Having experienced the thrill and exploration into growing up and photographing London, the West End, Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Birmingham for many is that it should not have a fear of military aircraft as a child, gender within the artist’s practice. the suburbs, the slums’.–The artist. Museums Trust and The Walker Art practical function or purpose. Banner explores their cultural Brandt settled in England in Gallery, National Museums Liverpool significance, and the romance yet Joseph Beuys (Germany 1921–1986) 1934 and became an important alongside YSP. The Programme will Armand Arman repulsion of war, often through Intuition ... instead of a cook-book photojournalist whose work appeared see 24 exhibitions over three years. (France–New York 1928–2005) language and wordscapes – as could (1968) pencil on wood in magazines such as Picture Post and More information about the Arts Untitled (1965) leather and acrylic be seen in her 2014 YSP exhibition Beuys is recognised as one of the Lilliput. Although often working with Council Collection’s seventieth Arman is associated with the Nouveau WpWpWp. In Top Gun (1994), she most important artists of the 20th traditional subjects – the portrait, anniversary celebrations can be Realiste movement that emerged handwrote the entire film, and in the century. He advocated ‘social landscape and nude – Brandt’s found at artscouncilcollection.org.uk in France in 1960 in response to same year she created this sculpture sculpture’, believing that art played unflinching documentation of real 2 At Home A National Partners exhibition from the Arts Council Collection 19.03.16–03.07.16 Yorkshire Sculpture Park 3

lives, carefully composed in black as Van Gogh, Grant developed a text-based artworks that challenge before moving to Rome in 1956. Here he and Donald Duck before he established Jeff Koon’s iconic balloon rabbit in various and white, drew attention to the personal painting style as expressed and comment on our culture through was part of the Arte Povera movement of his own, unique, comic-strip style. stages of collapse. My Glasses suggests that struggles of the working class and in Flowers Against Chintz that is works such as Protect Me From artists (which translates as poor art) who The Melody Haunts My Reverie references our identity is inherently bound up with the unemployed. A Sheffield Kitchen was both representational but tending What I Want (1983–85). Untitled is created artworks from humble materials and the Hoagy Carmichael jazz song Stardust objects we choose in life, especially items taken during Brandt’s first visit to toward abstraction – the real flowers a simple ink pad and set of rubber sought to reconnect art with everyday life. (1927) and is typical of Lichtenstein’s as personal as a pair of glasses. Open the north of England, a visit inspired becoming integrated into those of stamp aphorisms – or observations A leading artist of his generation, Kounellis approach, with even the printer’s dots partly by reading George Orwell and the fabric design. – including ‘WORDS TEND TO has had many international exhibitions and being painstakingly rendered, deliberately Dennis Morris (Jamaica 1953) J B Priestley as well as the Jarrow BE INADEQUATE’ and ‘LACK OF his work is in major collections including the confusing the values of the hand-made Untitled (Man with 2 children) (1973–75) Crusade (1936), a protest march CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL’. Guggenheim, New York, and , UK. Le vin and the mechanically reproduced. silver bromide print ‘Woven with the mettle of migrant myths, against unemployment and poverty du Musée is part of a series of wine bottle RA (UK 1962) labels created for Musée Bordeaux by artists dreams and realities, cut from the flowing Air in the northeast Tyneside town. H Frankfürter Allgemeine, Le Monde, also including Richard Long. fabric of Asian culture by pioneers using the Home Entertainment 4 Metres (2010) The Independent, International tools and physical surrounds of the West, Richard Hamilton (UK 1922–2011) painted steel Herald Tribune (1991) print on paper M Southall has provided a pattern of cross- Toaster (1967) photolithograph, The vane’s size doubles in each and card cultural living in post-war Britain gradually falling screenprint and collage Lisa Milroy RA (Canada 1959) subsequent commission Hume was shortlisted for the Turner in step to the directional sway of the town’s C Silverware (1983) oil on canvas Chris Evans (UK 1967) Associated with the British pop art Prize in 1996, represented Britain L multiethnic rhythms and traditions.’–The artist. Sophie Calle, The Tie, 1993. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist movement, Hamilton co-founded the Milroy studied at the Sorbonne University, Chris Evans explores the relationships Sophie Calle (France 1953) at the Venice Biennale in 1999, and Morris moved to London with his ‘Independent Group’ at London’s ICA Darren Lago (UK 1965) Paris, and Central Saint Martins, London. between cultural and corporate systems, The Tie (1993) silk elected to the Royal Academy in family as a child and became interested in Anthony Devas (UK 1911–1958) Masters in economics); as a United in 1952, which appropriated mass and This is Not a Pipe (1996) She is a member of the Royal Academy for example collaborating with managing Calle’s installations share personal 2001. He established an international photography through a club at his church, Six O’Clock News (1940) oil on Nations adviser during the Korean advertising culture as ‘found’ material, plastic, wood and electrics of Art, London, and has work in major directors of a group of retail and and fictional, often poetic and reputation as part of the Young British becoming successful as a teenager for his canvas war; and he also spent 3 years, for example Hamilton’s famous collage Lago is known especially for combining collections including Tate. Silverware is photographs of Bob Marley and the Wailers telecommunication companies for Radical enigmatic, stories about life, love Artists group in the 1990s, whose Devas was a portrait painter 3 months and 3 days in a French Just what is it that makes today’s familiar objects to make new sculptures, typical of Milroy’s paintings, which take taken during their 1973 tour. His career Loyalty (2003). Originally commissioned and loss. She employs objects as notoriety extended into the popular associated with the Euston Road Buddhist monastery. Often playful homes so different, so appealing? which often reference important historical domestic items, often grouped together, developed through music photography and by the Marres Centre for Contemporary touchstones within these stories, media and whose work and lives often School, a group of English painters and witty, Filliou’s works nonetheless (1956). Technically highly accomplished works of art. Based on a hairdryer, This is as their subject matter, painted in isolation he was a member of the punk/reggae band Culture, Maastricht, Home Entertainment connecting the viewer on an emotional made headlines. Hume was included in give great insight into profound and incorporating different printing Not a Pipe is a knowing and playful reference against a plain background. is a fully functioning weathervane. It is a play who taught or studied at the School the deliberately provocative exhibition Basement Five before becoming Art Director level and blurring the boundaries techniques, Toaster plays with the to René Magritte’s famous painting Ceci on words that, literally, points to the huge of Drawing and Painting between thought. In 1963 he proposed ‘Art’s of work from the Saatchi Collection of Island Reords in the late 1970s. This between public and private lives. Her imagery and copy of commercial n’est pas une pipe (1929), and its message Jonathan Monk (UK 1969) increase in pastimes enabled by technology. 1937 and 1939. They placed emphasis birthday’ as being the 17 January, Sensation (1997) at the Royal photograph is part of a series documenting installation Take Care of Yourself for advertising such as claiming ‘it has that the artwork was canvas and paint, My Glasses (1994) plastic, metal and glass The ‘home entertainment’ system has on direct representation based on when we should celebrate that we Academy, which cemented the YBA’s life in the diverse London district of Southall. the 2007 Venice Biennale (the world’s been included among the most not the thing it represented. Monk’s work has been presented in major evolved from the wireless radios of the observation and sought to make art have art in our lives. Optimistic Box shocking reputation in the popular leading festival of contemporary art) attractive objects for everyday use exhibitions including the Venice, Berlin and early 20th century to wireless-enabled live more relevant to a general public. No.1 suggests we ‘thank god for imagination. The newspapers here shared 107 analyses by women from exhibited at the New York Museum Roy Lichtenstein (USA 1923–1997) Taipei Biennials and in solo shows at the streaming and multiple ways to share and Six O’Clock News portrays a man modern weapons. We don’t throw include stories on US unemployment, different professions of a break up of Modern Art – the only automatic The Melody Haunts My Reverie (1965) ICA, London, and Irish Museum of Modern connect our lives across the world. Evans in a domestic setting most likely stones at each other any more’. the devastation of the Bay of Bengal email Calle had received. The Tie and listening to, rather than watching, This ironic attempt to see the best toaster to achieve this honour’. screenprint Art, Dublin. He has said that he decided N questions the expectations of cultural cyclone in 1991, economical recession its story recall Calle’s impressions of A leading artist of the US pop art movement, early in his career that being original was institutions in the digital age. For many they one of several daily bulletins on the in a situation echoes the influential and pre-general election debate. a man and the imaginary path their war effort at home and abroad. satire Candide (1759) by Voltaire, Barbara Hepworth (UK 1903–1975) Lichtenstein’s paintings evolved from being almost impossible so he appropriated and Lucia Nogueira (Brazil–London 1950–1998) are a peaceful respite, a slow experience abstract and non-figurative to include reinterpreted important works of art, such One and Three (1994) glass, mercury, lives might follow. A ‘dull thud’ could be heard during which poked fun at the prevailing Two Girls with Teacups (1949) of contemplation, for others a form of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse as Deflated Sculpture (2009), which shows phosphorus, paint and platinum the nine o’clock news on 15 October philosophy that we live in the best oil and pencil on board spectacle and entertainment. Robert E. Clatworthy RA (UK 1940 when Broadcasting of all possible worlds, and that one Born in nearby Wakefield, Hepworth 1928–2015) suffered a direct hit from a delayed- must interpret even the worst of became one of the most important K Cat (1954) bronze action German bomb. Seven people situations in the best light. artists of the 20th century, Clatworthy was best known as an were killed as Bruce Belfrade read the pioneering new and often abstract E’wao Kagoshima (Japan 1945) animal sculptor, creating energetic news, carrying on as though nothing forms of sculpture, but also creating Stopped Liquid (Cup) (1968) representations of bulls, cats and had happened despite being covered an important body of two-dimensional ceramic and brass horses. He worked quickly in wet in plaster and soot. works. As can be seen from displays Kagoshima works in painting, plaster to capture the sense of an G at The Hepworth Wakefield, she was sculpture and collage and he is highly technically accomplished from associated with the Japanese pop art animal in motion, as can be seen in Herbert Distel (Switzerland 1942) Dan Graham (USA 1942) a young age and the confidence of her movement. He moved to New York in this sculpture of a cat on the move. A Somewhat Peculiar Breakfast Egg One (1992) plastic (1969) wood, plastic and chromium hand is demonstrated in this beautiful 1976 and has shown work at the New As well as his own artistic career, Exploring the symbiosis between Working in painting, sculpture, work. Hepworth often worked on Museum, New York; ICA, London; and Clatworthy was Head of the Fine Art architecture and people, Graham is photography, film and music, Distel’s board, preparing the background PS1, New Department at the Central School of known for glass and mirrored pavilions works include the Museum of Drawers in a thin layer of oil paint in muted York. Stopped Liquid (Cup) is one Art and Design, London, from 1971 developed since the late 1970s, which (1970–77), held in the Kunsthaus colour, which was scratched back as of an early series of sculptures that to 1975 and elected a fellow of the can not only be entered but integrate Zürich, which contains miniature required. Her very important sculpture capture paint cans and cups at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1973. His with their surroundings through works by many artists including installation The Family of Man (1970) moment of spilling. work is held in important collections reflection. A curator and writer as Picasso. Distel now lives near to can be seen on Hillside here at YSP including the V&A and Tate. well as an artist, Graham exhibited Vienna and his work has been included and has been on generous loan from Janice Kerbel (Canada 1969) Minimalist artists such as Donald in important exhibitions including the Hepworth Estate since 1980. Home Climate Gardens: Council Judd, who explored the possibilities Documenta; the Venice and São Paulo Flat–Wall mounted gardens (2004) of very simple, often geometric, forms Biennales; and the Museum of Modern Damien Hirst (UK 1965) digital inket on paper and colours. A famous example of Art, New York. Distel considers eggs Relationships (1991) Nominated for the prestigious D Minimalism is Equivalent VIII by Carl to be the most universal ‘ready-made’ glass, plastic and paper Turner Prize in 2015, Kerbel was born Andre, also known as the Tate Bricks, Born in Leeds, Hirst launched his own in Toronto and now lives in London. Dalziel & Scullion in existence, being not just a homage which is part of his series of sculptures career and those of his contemporary She works in print, type, sound and (UK 1957, 1966) to life but also a symbol of awakening presenting 120 fire bricks in different in 1988 with the light and considers the relationship Television Cloth (1994) and renewal, and he has presented ROGER HIORNS combinations. One is based on the exhibition . Key themes in his between country and urban. Kerbel aluminium and silk organza them in different forms throughout simple game of rearranging tiles to work include the fragility of life, our devised nine different Home Climate Dalziel and Scullion have worked in his career. create a picture, the punchline being culture’s attitude to death, love, life Gardens during a collaboration collaboration since 1993, creating that it will always looks the same. SEIZURE and relationships in works such as with the Tyndall Centre for Climate photography, video, sound and The Physical Impossibility of Death Change research at the University of sculpture that explores contemporary Duncan Grant (UK 1885–1978) in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), East Anglia and the Norwich Gallery. life in relation to our environment. F Flowers Against Chintz (1956) comprising a dead shark suspended The digital inkjet prints document Their 2001 YSP project, for example, oil on board in a tank of formaldehyde. In the work her ideas for indoor gardens to suit included a series of photographs Robert Filliou (France 1926–1987) Painter, theatre and textile designer, here, relationships are reduced to the different situations such as Council Experience Roger Hiorns, Seizure, and sound works highlighting issues Optimistic Box No.1 (1968) Duncan Grant was a member of the concept of a ping-pong ball in a glass Flat: Wall-mounted Gardens and Gym: around the growth of cities and digital wood and stone Bloomsbury Group, an influential supported by different levels of water. Respiration Garden. 2008/2013 at YSP. Open weekends communication. Created in 1994, One of the most innovative artists early 20th-century community of Television Cloth is inscribed with the of his generation, Filliou was part of writers, academics, intellectuals Jenny Holzer (USA 1950) Jannis Kounellis (Greece 1936) and daily during school holidays word ‘rest’ and is even more relevant the French Communist party during and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, Untitled (1991) rubber, wood and ink Le vin du Musée (1986) in our increasingly screen-based age. World War II and had various parallel London. Familiar with the work of Holzer uses contemporary means of glass and paper It encourages us not only to give our careers including working for Coca the French Impressionists, such as communication, including billboards, Kounellis grew up during World War devices a rest, but ourselves too. Cola in LA (when he also gained a Monet, and Post Impressionists, such TV and especially LED signs, to create II and ten years of Greek civil war 4 At Home A National Partners exhibition from the Arts Council Collection

Rachel Whiteread (UK 1963) Untitled (1993) bronze A leading British artist, Whiteread W was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993, and is especially known (UK 1959) for House (1993), a concrete cast A Real Work of Art (1994) of the entire interior of a terraced wood, polyurethane, plastic, brass, home in Bow, London, that was due felt and paint for destruction. It was typical of her Wallinger was shortlisted for the Turner investigation into domestic forms, Prize in 1995, won the award in 2007, and the presence of their inhabitants and represented Britain at the 2001 through their absence – often casting Venice Biennale. Horses have long voids, such as the space between been a theme in his work, not just chair legs, using the lost form process because they have been a consistent in which the original item is destroyed. subject throughout the history of art, Untitled, for example, references the but due to their place in British class absences of the door it once opened, culture. For example, his 1995 Turner and by inference, the building it was Prize exhibition focused on horse once in and the people who used it. racing as metaphor for the British fixation with class and breeding. A Real Work of Art was the name of an actual chesnut filly horse owned by the artist and trained at Newmarket, which ran only one race before being injured.

Richard Wentworth (UK 1947) Nature, Mort (1982) Coming cotton and metal Wentworth transforms familiar objects and subverts their original function Soon Yoko Ono, All White Chess Set, 1962–1970. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist. with the result that our understanding of them becomes confused. Nature, TRANSPARENCY Mort takes its title from the French A National Partners Programme term for ‘still life’, a traditional subject ‘Nogueira takes things that are Kathy Prendergast (Ireland 1958) and text and considers our sense of Exhibition from the Arts Council matter in art, and a theme that close to hand and imbues them with The End and the Beginning (1996) place as revealed through memory Collection Wentworth has explored throughout malignancy and magic’.–. human hair and wood and shared mythologies. He often 25.06.16–04.09.16 his career. Rather than the expected Nogueria, who died in London Now living in London, Prendergast creates poetic narratives built around Chapel still-life scenes such as fruit and table aged just 48, created sculptures, works in sculpture, drawing, painting the voices of semi-fictional characters. See TRANSPARENCY, the second settings though, Wentworth’s are installations and drawings that and installation and was awarded This is the first presentation of Flat in a series of exhibitions curated snapshots of real-life circumstances subvert the everyday through the the prestigious Premio 2000 prize 23 since it was acquired by the Arts by YSP from the Arts Council that pique his interest, often of appropriation and alteration of familiar at the Venice Biennale in 1995. Her Council Collection and it is a two-part Collection later this year. Taking objects being used in ways other than objects. Mischief (1995), for example, early works such as the Body Map harmony set to music in which the the exceptional light qualities of intended, such as a wellington boot is a wooden chair that has lost its seat, series articulated the female form as former resident of a condemned block the Chapel as inspiration, the employed as a doorstop, and a bottle with one leg trapping a white bridal terrains and territories, as comment of flats lists the objects that used to exhibition explores the condition top as an ashtray. train, that is in fact an unrolled strip on the rights women have, or not, be in her home. of transparency and in so doing of plastic carrier bags. One and Three over their own bodies. In the 1990s responds to the particular aesthetic Edward Weston (USA 1886–1958) are a pair of earrings, but potentially her work began to be concerned with of the 18th-century building. Eggs (1930) silver bromide print lethal due to the combination of domestic objects, such as this based ‘The taut wire strings for slicing give it chemicals held within the fragile on a cotton reel but with human hair the appearance of a musical instrument, glass casings. instead of thread. S a miniature harp. I put the hard-boiled FAMILIES Kei Suga (Japan date unknown) egg, stripped for cutting into it, a couple Look out for AT HOME family Plant Forms Electric Light Bulbs more eggs were commandeered to activities in the Bothy Gallery to help (2 Parts) (1968) balance, and two aluminium baking explore the themes of the exhibition. O R plastic, wood and brass dishes, the halved kind, made to fit In Japanese culture it is common together in a round steamer were used Donald Rodney (UK 1961–1998) in back. Result – excellent.’–The artist. Yoko Ono (Japan 1933) to use a tiny part of something to JOIN IN All White Chess Set (1962–70) In the House of My Father (1997) suggest the whole – the traditional One of the most innovative acrylic on wood photographic print on aluminium zen garden of gravel, rocks and moss, and influential photographers of the Famous for her marriage to John (Photograph taken by Andra Nelki) for example, to represent mountains 20th century, Weston pioneered Lennon, Ono is in her own right Rodney was a significant artist of in a landscape. Here, miniature the possibilities of the new art form. an internationally important and his generation, whose work explored gardens are created in the form In early 1930 he experimented with Join the conversation respected artist and activist whose identity and the position of ethnic of typical glass light bulbs. the formal, compositional qualities by using #AtHome minorities in Britain. Made just a year of readily available domestic items, works include the Imagine Peace Yorkshire Sculpture Park before his death, In the House of in this case eggs and kitchen utensils. Tower in Iceland. In adapting the West Bretton My Father is an edition of photographs ‘ready-made’ game of chess Ono Wakefield WF4 4LG and a sculpture constructed from the Stefan Wewerka (Germany references Marcel Duchamp not United Kingdom artist’s own skin removed during one 1928–2013) only in the act of appropriation T ysp.co.uk but also in his intense interest in of many operations to combat sickle Coat Hanger (1968) metal Marcus Taylor (UK 1964) chess, which he seriously pursued cell anaemia – an inherited disease Initially trained as an architect, Untitled (Upright Fridge) (1991) after ‘retiring’ from art in 1923. that affects people of African, Eastern Wewerka was an artist, designer In making both sides white, Ono Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and acrylic sheet and teacher especially interested in erases the difference between Asian ancestry. It is a poignant and Taylor’s sculptures are usually based on the possibilities of typical domestic ourselves and our opponent, moving work that reveals much in mass-produced domestic objects such items. His TECTA chair sculptures rendering conflict pointless. one simple image. as freezers, fridges, and hi-fi stacking for example were designed according units. They are built to life size, pared to the Bauhaus principle of form Paul Rooney (UK 1967) back to their essential dimensions, following function and suited seven Flat 23 (2002) sound work for three in thick, clear acrylic sheet that is different types of sitting postures. monitors, three channel sound sanded to create a matt, frosted finish, Coat Hanger pushes the form of a P Winner of the 2008 Northern Art suggestive of the chilled temperature familiar item into an artwork, being no Prize, Rooney works with sound, video in the case of the fridge and freezer. longer useful for its intended purpose.