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Out of my Flower Bone Comes a Tale No 6
Out of my Flower Bone Comes a Tale No 6
Out of my Flower Bone Comes a Tale No 6

Out of my Flower Bone Comes a Tale No 6

Artist (Hitchin, England, born 1965)
Date1994
Mediumoil on cotton furnishing fabric (reversed and primed)
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall (Height x Width x Depth): 162 × 112 × 2.8cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1995 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.
Copyright© Louise Hopkins
LocationOn Display - Gallery 01
Object numberABDAG010839
Keywords
About MeIn 1994 Louise Hopkins, graduate of Glasgow School of Art, won the First Exhibition Award. Open to all post-graduate students at Art Colleges in Scotland, this award, initiated by Aberdeen art Gallery and sponsored by Enterprise Oil plc, enabled one of Scotland's best young contemporary artists to produce a new body of work which was displayed in Aberdeen Art Gallery.

This picture was purchased from the exhibition. It formed one of a series of works in which the artist painted on the reverse side of patterned fabric, lightly and transparently gessoed to provide a painting surface. The imagery makes reference to the tradition of still life painting but, by using a mass produced domestic fabric, Hopkins brings a contemporary edge to the work. The background has been painted out leaving the ghostly image of the pattern repeat revealed through the cloth. In this way, the artist plays with notions of absence and presence, stylisation and with spatial imagery relationships.
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A contemporary edge to mass-produced material - and beautifully done at that. There is something magical about this piece.
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