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Cube, painted pink with attached jute fibres and twine DUNIH 2011.1.51

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Cube, painted pink with attached jute fibres and twine

Cube, slightly larger than the rest and hollow. Painted pink and with four faces decorated with jute fibres, coiled jute, jute twine and split jute? plant stems. One face with coloured illustration of fishermen mending nets. One face with handwritten port names from "Dundee.........Calcutta-1498/Vasco da Gama./Made inPortugal 2009" Sticker label with printed "AIDAN BREMNAR/919/211/557,28/764/783 also e-mail and web addresses. Created as part of the “Juteopolis SSA Collaborative Sculpture Annual Exhibition 2009". Here members of the Society of Scottish Artists embellished 10cm x 10cm wooden cubes, taking jute as their subject matter. These cubes were then laid out on the floor in the shape of a lade to create a large collaborative floor sculpture, exhibited at the Vision Building, Dundee. In 2010 these cubes were also exhibited in the machine hall at Verdant Works.

Number: DUNIH 2011.1.51
Name: Cube, painted pink with attached jute fibres and twine
Date: 2009
Maker: Bremnar, Aidan
Location: On Display