Title
Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows, in a few months we'll wonder what plates and knives are for
1976-1983
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Australia
- Date
- 1976-1983
- Media categories
- Drawing , Collage
- Materials used
- pencil, graphite, animal bones, feather, butterfly/moth wings, stone fragment, paint/plaster wall-peelings, metal shaving, wire, adhesive tape, plant matter, wooden 'corpus' figure on paper
- Dimensions
- 46.0 x 62.0 cm (sight); 84.5 x 95.8 x 4.9 cm frame
- Credit
- Purchased 1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 178.1983
- Copyright
- © Tom Arthur
- Artist information
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Tom Arthur
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Australia
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Attitudes to drawing: recent work by Sydney artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Apr 1983–07 May 1983
Australian Drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Dec 1988–26 Mar 1989
Art of parts: collage and assemblage from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Sep 2016–13 Nov 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Andrew Sayers, Contemporary Australian collage and its origins, 'The modern collage in Australia', pg. 29-38, Roseville, 1990, 36.
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Susanna Short, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Powerful self-images in charcoal', pg. 8, Sydney, 28 Apr 1983, 8. Under 'Art' in 'The arts and entertainment' section.
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