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