Highly Sprung
Wood and metal (12,500 clothes pegs)
Dimensions Variable
Permanent collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery
Awarded The Russell Trust Prize in 2008, in Visual Arts Scotland’s Annual Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy.
I made this Highly Sprung dress out of the springs used in clothes pegs whilst researching the history of laundry. 12,500 clothes pegs were used in the construction, all of which had to be broken and the springs linked together, a process which took hours, was monotonously repetitive and hard on the hands, much like doing the laundry used to be!
2015 – Human Presence, Aberdeen Art Gallery at Drum.
2015 – Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh
2008 – How Do I Look In This? (with Susan Cutts), The Park Gallery, Falkirk
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Permanent collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
2015 – Human Presence, Aberdeen Art Gallery at Drum.
2001 – A Fixed Abode (with Clare Waddle), Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Detail
Permanent collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Permanent collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery.