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Cube with text re working conditions in the jute industry. DUNIH 2011.1.59

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Cube with text re working conditions in the jute industry.

Cube with four faces with cut out paper letters spelling JUTE. Paper pink with black text about the working conditions in the jute industry. Two faces are covered in the same paper and the text is about women workers and conditions Signed "lyssies". 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 2011.1.59
Name: Cube with text re working conditions in the jute industry.
Date: 2009
Maker: Stevens, Lys
Location: In Store