Gymnasium
Gymnasium
1978 – 1979
300 x 300 x 185 cm
A large freestanding sculpture / construction with its own light and sound systems
- one hooded rat with mask
- three profile spotlights no filters
- fifty-five handmade ceramic bricks raku fired
- one eight foot parallel bar on stands
- one medicine ball
- one mirror with two pounds of crushed glass
- one 200 watt clear light bulb programmed on a fade pulsar
- tape loop of sounds similar to white noise
- atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with odour of talcum and chlorine
Exhibition provenance
ICA, Main Gallery, London 1979
Spectro Arts Workshop, Gallery 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980