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Asymmetric Snowflake

Greetings Card
2007 (made), 2007 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Locus+ (issued)
Paterson, Toby (artist)
Luder, Owen CBE (architect)
Place of origin
Britain (made)
Britain (issued)

This card was issued in 2007 by visual arts commissioning agency Locus+ and sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. It reproduces a piece commissioned by Locus+, a Toby Paterson photocollage using images of the The Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park in Gateshead by Owen Luder CBE, built in 1969 and scheduled to be demolished in 2008. The card is an example of the use of the seasonal greeting by an arts body to raise its profile and promote its activities.

Object details

Categories
Architecture
Collages
Christmas
Greeting Cards
Object type
Greetings card
TitleAsymmetric Snowflake (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithography on card
Card
Lithography
Brief description
Greetings card, 'Asymmetric Snowflake' by Toby Paterson, issued as a Christmas card by Locus+, Britain, 2007.
Physical description
White card folded to (approximate) square (along left hand edge). Front: printed reproduction of a Toby Paterson collage of black & white photographic images of details from an Owen Luder (CBE) building against an orange background. Inside: image caption, greeting, logo and information printed in grey and black. Back: information printed in black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20cm
  • Folded width: 21cm
  • Open width: 42cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Image: Asymmetric Snowflake 2007 by Toby Paterson / A Locus+ commission' (Printed in black inside bottom front)
  • 'ALL AT LOCUS+ / WISH YOU A VERY / MERRY CHRISTMAS / AND A / PEACEFUL NEW YEAR // Staff: / Jon Bewley, Jonty Tarbuck, Enid Rogers, Hannah Kirkham, Matt Hearn // Trustees: / Kay Pallister, John Adams, Alan Haydon, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, John Kippin, Jamie Warde-Aldam // Locus+ / Wards Buildings, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EW / t: 0191 233 1450 f: 0191 233 1451 e: locusplus@newart.demon.co.uk / www.locusplus.org.uk // Locus+ is supported by Arts Council England' (Printed in grey and black, inside back)
  • (Logo printed in grey, inside back)
  • The Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park in Gateshead by Owen Luder CBE, a British Architect who designed a / number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the UK throughout the 1960s and 1970s, / opened in 1969. Demolition of the building is scheduled to be complete by Spring 2008. (Printed in black on the back)
Credit line
Given by Lady Ritblat
Subjects depicted
Architecture
Photocollages
Summary
This card was issued in 2007 by visual arts commissioning agency Locus+ and sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. It reproduces a piece commissioned by Locus+, a Toby Paterson photocollage using images of the The Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park in Gateshead by Owen Luder CBE, built in 1969 and scheduled to be demolished in 2008. The card is an example of the use of the seasonal greeting by an arts body to raise its profile and promote its activities.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.858-2008

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Record createdJuly 15, 2010
Record URL
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