Nine leading British sculptors worked with the Hayward Gallery, Tate Gallery (London) and Homebase in a unique collaborative project, with support from the Arts Council of England.
At Home with Art, conceived by the artist Colin Painter, featured work by Richard Wentworth, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Alison Wilding, Permindar Kaur, David Mach, Angela Bulloch, Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg.
A number of households were selected and each artist visited them and responded to their tastes, décor and lifestyle in making an object. They range from pure sculpture to functional objects such as a table lamp, a shower curtain or a set of garden tools – contemporary art works, conceived for mass production and offered for sale in the mass market at low prices.
Image: Alison Wilding, Ceramic sculpture, 1999
Produced by Royal Doulton. A usable table object, or a sculpture to place on a shelf or hang on the wall.
'I don't know if this piece is functional or not, and there is no definitive way of placing it. Its transformation from prototype to fine china has given it a translucency so it has become an object that holds light.' Alison Wilding, 1999.
At Home with Art
Sat 21 Jul — Sat 01 Sep 2001
Ground & First Floor Galleries
