Prompt

Prompt

1977 – 1987
700 x 400 x 400 cm

A large freestanding construction / sculpture – with its own light, surveillance and sound systems

  • one cast aluminium floor with 120 38 x 38 cm tiles
  • one standard builders club hammer one length of black silk
  • one small square of black canvas
  • one table
  • two chairs
  • two wood plinth floor trays
  • one bag of dry builders sand one lead table-cloth
  • various objects in metal, ceramic, bone and cloth
  • one large black dog
  • four strobe lights
  • four pattern 23 spotlights with apricot and turquoise filters
  • four six-minute tape loops
  • area of construction invested with unrecognisable odour

Exhibition provenance

Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1987
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 1987
Foyle Arts Project, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1987
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 1988
Serpentine Gallery, London, 1988
City Art Gallery, Southampton, 1988