Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot

Anthea Hamilton (1978 - )

screenprint on paper

2017

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Thailand
    City: Bangkok
    Place: British Embassy

    This print uses a motif that recurs regularly in Anthea Hamilton’s work; a two dimensional ‘wavey boot’. Previously manifested in a wide range of material; alabaster, walnut, ceramic, the boot is always at 1:1 scale; a size 6 boot.

    Hamilton’s edition, entitled Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot is a proposal drawing for an unlikely apartment building. Made as a silkscreen print, the boot sits in high relief, two dimensional and flat, like many of Hamilton’s sculptures. The image is built from precisely balanced muted colours and glossy details against a background of pure red to give an illusionistic depth that is both vertiginous and seductive.
  • About the artist
    Anthea Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, where she continues to live and work. She took over the Duveen Galleries for the Tate Britain Commission in 2018, showing sculptural works and performance. She has had solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna, Austria (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2016); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); and Glasgow International (2014). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in various museums in Europe, the US and the UK. She was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2016 and her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2019.
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  • Details
    Title
    Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot
    Edition
    Number 18 in an edition of 40
    Date
    2017
    Medium
    screenprint on paper
    Dimensions
    height: 87.1 cm; width: 47.0 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Whitechapel Gallery, January 2020
    Inscription
    recto: inscribed by the artist 'anthea Hamilton', bottom right; '18/40', bottom left
    Provenance
    Whitechapel Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased from UK Government Art Collection, 9 January 2020
    GAC number
    18845