Arena
Arena
1976 – 1984
6 x 4.25 x 1.85 m
A freestanding construction / sculpture with its own light and sound systems
- twenty two hooded rats
- one skeleton rat
- one mummified rat
- eleven red and one clear PAR 38 spotlights on time chase
- twelve pieces of black felt
- twelve sheets of silver mirror
- twelve black painted mild steel frames with chrome studs
- two tape decks and two amps
- four loudspeakers
- two tape loops of vari-speeded sound with wind, rain, drum, voices and whispers….*
- atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with pungent odour
* duration six minutes. “I consider the sound in the work to be the primary element; it is utilized to suggest a particular mood and lend a kind of volumetric architecture to the visual aspects of the construction.”
Exhibition provenance
Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London , 1982 (two studies exhibited)
Chelsea School of Art, London, 1982 (first state of this work – incomplete)
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 1984
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1985