Christine Borland

Conservatory, 2004

Engraved ceramic, wooden shelves, glass
Dimensions Variable
Edition of 3
Exhibited Lisson Gallery, London Simulated Patient 2004
CASCA, Adelaide, Austrailia, An Hospital 2004
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2004
Cinquante Porcelaines du Musee royal de Mariemont, Limoges, France D Immateriels Lendemains, 2005

The idea for Conservatory arose from a period of research, developing a project for an exhibition at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland in 2003. The small fragments are pieces of an entire human skeleton cast in porcelain then smashed and artificially weathered to resemble similar pieces of china collected from the seashore. There is a very faint red pattern running through the piece which of an indigenous seaweed copied from a botanical engraving in the archive of the stately home. The piece was produced in collaboration with CRAFT Centre de Recherche sur les Arts du Feu et de la Terre, a ceramic research centre in Limoges, France.

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Attending moments passed: Christine Borland's Conservatory Geraldine Barlow, Broadsheet Volume 33 No 1, Published by the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia as a PDF.