sculpture
- Museum number
- 2014,3021.1
- Title
- Object: Propagation Project: Ring of Small Petals no.120 増殖 /環 小さな花びら
- Description
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Sculpture in a circular shape. Formed from forged steel nails, sandblasted, heated and coated with beeswax.
- Production date
- 2014
- Dimensions
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Height: 57 centimetres
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Weight: 20 kilograms
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Width: 59 centimetres
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Depth: 30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Mori Junko states of her work: ‘I am always drawn to the visual impact of an aggregate assembled with many small components and find infinite possibilities of the form multiplied by the vital power beyond the physical space, such as cell division through a microscope. My work consists of multiples of individually forged steel or other metals, and the subtle difference of each piece results from hand hammering. No piece is individually planned but becomes fully formed within the making and thinking process. Repeating little accidents, like a mutation of cells, the final accumulation of units emerges within this process of evolution.’
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Mori Junko is one of the more innovative and exciting Japanese metal artists working today, who is based in the UK. Working with a technique which has been practised in Japan for long time, she receives inspiration from nature and uses imagination to turn metal (often iron steel or silver) into objects that have an organic feel. Mori is now well established and has worked on major collaborative projects with public and private museums in the UK, including Holburne Museum in Bath and Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
Mori’s work is incredibly well constructed and visually compelling. This is a major work of hers both in size and in the amount of individually forged nails she used to construct this complex sculpture.
- Location
- On display (G93/dc9)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Oct - , BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2014,3021.1
