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50/50 (2015)

David Clarke

lead and pewter

The Box, Plymouth

50/50 (2015)
50/50 (2015)
50/50 (2015)

Details

Classification:

Craft, Silverware

Materials:

Lead, Pewter

Dimensions:

15 x 15 x 15 (dimension variable) cm

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2015

Scheme:

Craft Acquisition Scheme: Omega Fund (2014-)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by the Contemporary Art Society, 25 January 2016; presented to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, now The Box, 2015/16

Relationship:

The Box, Plymouth

Subject:

Memory, Distruction, Self-corroding, Silver, Metal, Process
David Clarke rejects traditional notions of beauty, distorting and innovatively transforming the surfaces of precious metals using corrosives such as salt and lead. The artist has based this most recent work, 50/50 (2015), on the cup that his mother used to take medicine towards the end of her life while suffering with cancer. His delicate approach to materiality creates an emotive intimacy around a subject that greatly impacts so many lives, with the self-corroding elements of the combined materials, pewter and lead, mirroring the effects of cancer as a destructive disease.

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Artist Bio

David Clarke
50/50 (2015)

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