Bookends
Pair of Bookends
2015-2016 (made)
2015-2016 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Bookends (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | 'Granby Rock' poured into corner moulds. |
| Brief description | Granby Workshop; Pair of Concrete Bookends, 2015-2016 |
| Physical description | Pair of bookends, both in the shape of a triangular based pyramid, the base and two sides are smooth (in the shaps of a corner) the fourth side is rough, showing the material in its natural and unmoulded state. |
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| Production type | small batch |
| Object history | This object is made from 'Granby Rock'. Granby Rock was designed in collaboration with Will Shannon. As the houses in the Granby Four Streets were refurbished, discarded material were picked from skips and given a new life cast into mantle pieces and other products for the home. Red, and yellow brick, slate and stone are cast with sand, pigmented cement and aggregate and then ground and polished, creating a highly decorative surface speckled with rubble. Information adapted from Granby Workshop, Catalogue 2015. |
| Summary | This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CD.138:1, 2-2016 |
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| Record created | April 4, 2016 |
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