Field Hospital

Location

Country: USA
City: New York
Place: UK Mission to the United Nations

This painting is part of a series of works by Turnbull entitled "Houses into Flats", all of which were inspired by architectural plans and elevations. The visual source for this work was the plan for a First World War German field hospital, which Turnbull took from a book entitled "Architecture of Aggression". The image oscillates between the plan of a clinical building and the depiction of an austere, metal hospital bed, viewed end-on. Turnbull associated the acid green colour with the gangrenous wounds dressed at such a hospital. She regards diagrams as forms of coded visual data, with different (though not inferior) representational conventions to traditionally "artistic" means of depicting structures.

Places

Subjects

architectural plan/technical drawing, conceptual art, field, hospital

Materials & Techniques

acrylic (paint), linen, board, oil, mixed media (art object), acrylic painting, oil painting

Artist

Alison Turnbull (1956 - )

Title

Field Hospital

Date

2000

Medium

Oil and acrylic on linen on board

Dimensions

height: 61.00 cm, width: 76.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, March 2001

Provenance

the artist

GAC number

17574