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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery

Double Image

Form
1974 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This work demonstrates Graham Burr's interest in creating sculptural ceramic forms with painterly surfaces. It was exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition at the British Craft Centre in 1975. Of the works shown there, the collector Bill Ismay wrote: "These mountain peaks and soaring architectures rising through clouds, compressed into the symmetry of geometrical form and endowed with fine and richly-coloured surfaces which are normally beyond the sculptor's scope, appear as something unique in both sculptural and ceramic terms."


Object details

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Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

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TitleDouble Image (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, slab-built, slip and copper oxide under glazes, reduction fired
Brief description
One of two half-cones forming part of "Double Image", slab-built stoneware, blue-grey slip, reduced copper oxide under mat white glaze, Graham Burr, London, 1974

One of two half-cones forming part of "Double Image", slab-built stoneware, blue-grey slip, reduced copper oxide under mat white glaze, Graham Burr, London, 1974
Physical description
Stoneware sculpture in two parts, blue-grey slip and copper oxide under matt white glazes, reduction fired. Each slab is in the form of a half cone, with one flat vertical surface and one curved angled surface. These are decorated with cloud-like red areas of reduced copper oxide on a grey background. The two parts are placed on in front of the other with the flat surfaces set forward, the lower two half-cones foremost. Unmarked.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Width: 54.5cm
Credit line
Given by Joan Burr
Summary
This work demonstrates Graham Burr's interest in creating sculptural ceramic forms with painterly surfaces. It was exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition at the British Craft Centre in 1975. Of the works shown there, the collector Bill Ismay wrote: "These mountain peaks and soaring architectures rising through clouds, compressed into the symmetry of geometrical form and endowed with fine and richly-coloured surfaces which are normally beyond the sculptor's scope, appear as something unique in both sculptural and ceramic terms."
Collection
Accession number
C.7:1, 2-2005

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Record createdMay 18, 2005
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