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The Will to Proceed to the End of the Possible

Kneebone, Rachel

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Sculpture, soft-paste porcelain with clear glaze, comprises a heavily cracked monumental rectangular plinth surmounted by a writhing mass of modelled and collaged organic forms that are both identifiable (human limbs) and ambiguous fragments that resemble folded pieces of skin, flowers and tendrils, bones and sinews, and other natural forms; covered over much of the surface with a clear glaze, with unglazed surfaces also apparent.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 39566

Creation/Production

Kneebone, Rachel
Date: 2014

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. Colwinston & others, 29/5/2015
Purchased with support from The Art Fund, The Colwinston Charitable Trust, The Henry Moore Foundation and The Zabludowicz Foundation

Measurements

Height (cm): 70
Width (cm): 57
Depth (cm): 51
Height (in): 27
Width (in): 20
Depth (cm): 22

Techniques

hand-built
forming
Applied Art
modelled
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Abstract
  • Animals And Plants
  • Applied Art
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Ceramics
  • Fine Art
  • Kneebone, Rachel
  • People
  • Plant
  • Sculpture
  • The Body

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