UW84DC#7

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

The title of this work can be understood as “you wait for the sea” in the language of mobile phone text messaging. Richard Deacon, an internationally renowned British artist who was awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, has long been interested in how technological developments can affect the ways we communicate with one another. UW84DC#7 is formed of strips of untreated ash which have been steamed and bent, and then fastened together to produce a mass of twisting forms. The sculpture is reminiscent of driftwood, beaten by waves and washed up on the beach, while the undulating shapes echo the movement of the sea.

Richard Deacon is a leading British sculptor whose work first achieved international recognition in the 1980s. He was born in Bangor, Wales. He studied at Somerset College of Art and St Martin’s School of Art in London. He then studied for an MA in Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art. His first solo exhibition was in London in 1983 and he has exhibited widely since, across the UK and around the world. In 1987 he was awarded the Turner Prize. He was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998 and received an OBE in 1999. In 2008, several exhibitions of his work were held internationally including shows in Ljubljana, Copenhagen, New York and London.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

aluminium, ash wood, sculpture (as object name)

Artist

Richard Deacon (1949 - )

Title

UW84DC#7

Date

2001

Medium

Ash and aluminium sculpture

Dimensions

height: 84.00 cm, width: 300.00 cm, depth: 132.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Lisson Gallery, March 2003

Provenance

Lisson Gallery, London

GAC number

17775