Tim Berners-Lee

Nick Crowe (1968 - )

Engraved glass panel

2000

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection

    The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, develops and promotes standard web technologies. Created in 1994, it is an international consortium directed by Tim Berners-Lee, the British man who invented the web itself in late 1990. Nick Crowe has portrayed Berners-Lee, along with the other members of the Management Committee, through a simple hand-engraved outline on glass, which casts a shadow onto the paper behind. The World Wide Web Consortium is an incredibly influential, but little known organisation. Although the people depicted in these portraits have a huge impact on our lives, we would probably not recognise them if we saw them on the street. By portraying them in such an intangible, ephemeral way, Crowe is commenting on the vaporous nature of the web and its organisational power structures.

    Nick Crowe was born in Barnsley in 1968 and studied at Barnsley College of Art and the University of Hull. His work has been exhibited widely, both in this country and abroad, and he is a contributor to several art magazines. He has acted as a curator and has held visiting lectureships at numerous art schools, including Goldsmiths, the Slade and the Ruskin School of Art. Nick Crowe lives and works in Manchester.

  • About the artist
    Nick Crowe was born in Barnsley and studied at Barnsley College of Art and the University of Hull. His work has been exhibited widely, both in this country and abroad. He has acted as a curator and has held visiting lectureships at numerous art schools, including Goldsmiths, the Slade and the Ruskin School of Art. He lives and works in Manchester.
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    People
    Sir Timothy John ('Tim') Berners-Lee (1955 - )
    Places
    Subjects
    male portrait, computing, inventor, man
    Materials & Techniques
    paper (as artists material), glass (glass as material), engraved glass, engraving process
  • Details
    Artist
    Nick Crowe (1968 - )
    Title
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Series Title
    The Management Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c)
    Edition
    3/3
    Date
    2000
    Medium
    Engraved glass panel
    Dimensions
    height: 55.00 cm, width: 38.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Mobile Home, February 2003
    Provenance
    Mobile Home, London
    GAC number
    17764/7