Name
Glass bottle, wine label, paper clip, steel, copper and glass ball
1992-1993-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building
A green glass bottle hangs upside down, supported against the wall like a dispenser in a bar. Tony Carter is interested in the symbolism and interpretation of material objects. He has commented that his bottle sculptures are concerned less with the bottles themselves, than the bottles as containers or conduits. They provide a means by which energy can move from one place to another. In this case, the bottle does not contain water, but a rolled up label. Tony Carter studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and gained his masters degree from Reading University in 1968.
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About the artist
Tony Carter was born in West Riding, Yorkshire. He studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and gained his MA from Reading University in 1968. He was a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Fellow at Christ's College and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge in 1990. He has exhibited extensively since the 1970s, mostly in the UK and France.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- ball, allegory & symbolism, label, bottle
- Materials & Techniques
- paper clip, glass bottle, glass ball, wine label, steel, copper, sculpture (as object name)
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Details
- Artist
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Tony Carter (1943 - 2016)
- Title
- Name
- Date
- 1992-1993
- Medium
- Glass bottle, wine label, paper clip, steel, copper and glass ball
- Dimensions
- height: 35.00 cm, width: 9.00 cm, depth: 10.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Anthony Reynolds Gallery, November 1997
- Inscription
- none
- GAC number
- 17282