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Triptych
Kinnaird, Alison - Enlarge image
Triptych
- Place of origin:
Temple (Midlothian) (made)
- Date:
1992 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Kinnaird, Alison (designer)
Kallenberger, Kreg (cut by)
Schott & Co. (maker) - Materials and Techniques:
Engraved optical glass, wood and velvet, industrially made glass, machine cut, wheel engraved
- Credit Line:
Purchased with Art Fund support
- Museum number:
C.335:1 to 6-1993
- Gallery location:
Glass, Room 131, case 84, shelf 4 []
Triptych explores the iconography of the icon. The three sections represent Man, Woman and Child as Past, Present and Future. Man, the Past, is attempting to free himself, but his feet are caught in the Web of Time. Woman, the Present, is shown as a shell within a shell, as flawed Venus (the classical goddess of love) and flawless Virgin. The future is the Bird Child, a symbol of the young soul, bearing the burden of the untouched future. Kinnaird uses her very personal interests in family, the natural world and Celtic and classical imagery in this complex work.