Global Information Lookup Global Information

The Oval Court information


The Oval Court
ArtistHelen Chadwick
Year1984-1986
MediumPhotocopy collage
Dimensions122 cm × 198 cm (48 in × 78 in)
LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London
AccessionE.1:2-1988

The Oval Court is an artwork created between 1984 and 1986 by British artist Helen Chadwick.[1] The work was part of Chadwick's first major solo exhibition entitled Of Mutability, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.[2] Chadwick received a Turner Prize nomination in 1987 for the exhibition, making her one of the first women nominated for the prize.[3] The work is currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London.

The Oval Court refers to an entire room in the Of Mutability exhibition. On the walls of the room was a venetian glass mirror and photocopied images of the artist crying with tears made of blue foliage which flowed down into computer rendered drawings of the Baroque columns from the baldacchino of St Peter's Basilica, that reach down to the floor. As if formed from the artist's tears, the centre of the room contained an ovoid shaped, photocopied collage of blue toned A4 paper where multiple copies of the artist appear floating in a pool of plenty, with dead animals, insects, flowers, fruit and fish all swimming around her.[4] In the centre of this platform is five golden spheres corresponding to the artists fingers as well as the touch of the divine.[5] In the second room of the exhibition was Carcass (1986) a glass tower that was two metres high, full of rotting vegetable matter which the artist would refill daily. Carcass was adjacent to the room containing The Oval Court, the decay of Carcass seemed to loom over The Oval Court that was full of reminders of the transcience of life.

  1. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "The Oval Court | Chadwick, Helen | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  2. ^ "Helen ChadwickChanging the Landscape of Sculpture – Sue Hubbard". Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  3. ^ Tate. "Turner Prize 1987 shortlist: Helen Chadwick". Tate. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  4. ^ Horlock, Mary (2004). "Between a Rock and a Soft Place". In Mark, Sladen (ed.). Helen Chadwick. pp. 33-46
  5. ^ Chadwick, Helen (2004). Helen Chadwick. Mark Sladen, Barbican Art Gallery. London: Barbican Art Gallery. ISBN 3-7757-1393-X. OCLC 55649865.

and 28 Related for: The Oval Court information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8852 seconds.)

The Oval Court

Last Update:

The Oval Court is an artwork created between 1984 and 1986 by British artist Helen Chadwick. The work was part of Chadwick's first major solo exhibition...

Word Count : 847

The Oval

Last Update:

The Oval, currently named for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth...

Word Count : 4284

Palace of Fontainebleau

Last Update:

symbol of the château. Their major project was the Oval Court, which was designed to be the entrance to the new royal apartments. They transformed the loggia...

Word Count : 11775

Oval Office

Last Update:

The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States. Part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States...

Word Count : 5524

French Renaissance architecture

Last Update:

grand stairway on the oval court leading up the royal apartments. It had a portico with classical columns resembling a triumphal arch. The design of this...

Word Count : 4982

Oval Maidan

Last Update:

maintain the Oval maidan. The Maharashtra government did not respond to the petition, leading the group to take it to the Mumbai High Court. The Court ruled...

Word Count : 348

West Wing

Last Update:

The West Wing of the White House houses the offices of the president of the United States. The West Wing contains the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the...

Word Count : 1458

Oval Four

Last Update:

The Oval Four are four black men—Winston Trew, Sterling Christie, George Griffiths and Constantine "Omar" Boucher—who were arrested by police at Oval...

Word Count : 1033

Marina Warner

Last Update:

Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (Collins, 2021) Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court (Afterall Books, 2022) Temporale (Sylph Editions, 2023) Zeljka Marosevic...

Word Count : 2377

Oval Mansions

Last Update:

1153 Oval Mansions are eight separate blocks of tenement housing in Kennington, south London. The blocks stand between the Oval cricket ground and the Oval...

Word Count : 723

List of stadiums in Oceania

Last Update:

Adelaide Arden St Oval – Melbourne Aurora Stadium – Launceston Bellerive Oval – Hobart Brisbane Cricket Ground – Brisbane (Commonly known as "the Gabba") Drummoyne...

Word Count : 780

Worcester Oval

Last Update:

The Worcester Oval was an American athletic grounds in Worcester, Massachusetts. Constructed for track and field, the venue hosted myriad other events...

Word Count : 1641

Whitten Oval

Last Update:

Whitten Oval (also known as Mission Whitten Oval under a naming rights agreement) is a stadium in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

Word Count : 2487

Oval Office Study

Last Update:

The Oval Office Study is a private office for the president of the United States. Located in the West Wing of the White House, it adjoins the Oval Office...

Word Count : 200

Piss Flowers

Last Update:

the use of the photocopier in her earlier work The Oval Court. The work can also be seen to reference the shape of Andy Warhol's Daisy. Outside the art...

Word Count : 497

Concord Oval

Last Update:

Concord Oval (also Waratah Stadium), is a rugby football stadium in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Concord, Australia. The stadium is able to hold 5...

Word Count : 805

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Last Update:

The main part of the exhibition, 'The Oval Court' (a major installation of sculptural forms, photocopies of animals, vegetation and the artist's body) was...

Word Count : 3873

Lugogo Stadium

Last Update:

Stadium, also known as Lugogo Cricket Oval, is a cricket ground in Kampala, Uganda. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1957 when Kenya Asians...

Word Count : 247

Dyckman Oval

Last Update:

Dyckman Oval was a sports venue in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It was most commonly known as a home for Negro league baseball...

Word Count : 517

United States Oval Office Address

Last Update:

Oval Office address is a type of speech made from a President of the United States in the Oval Office at the White House. It is considered among the most...

Word Count : 1165

Eastern Oval

Last Update:

Eastern Oval (formerly known as the Ballarat Cricket Ground) is a cricket and Australian rules football ground in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia...

Word Count : 563

Adelaide Oval

Last Update:

The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly...

Word Count : 9082

Lapstone Oval

Last Update:

with "welcome to the Graveyard" There are a few features at Lapstone Oval. A rugby union field 16 netball courts (10 are asphalt and the other 6 are grass)...

Word Count : 344

Aorangi Oval

Last Update:

Aorangi Oval is a cricket ground in Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, situated on Morgans Road in the suburb of Gleniti. It is a part of Aorangi Park...

Word Count : 322

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai

Last Update:

of 94 buildings. The 19th century Victorian Gothic buildings that lie to the east of the Oval are mainly the Mumbai High Court, The University of Mumbai...

Word Count : 449

Yellow Oval Room

Last Update:

The Yellow Oval Room is an oval room located on the south side of the second floor in the White House, the official residence of the president of the...

Word Count : 1121

Behy court tomb

Last Update:

of this type of monument. The drystone wall also enclosed an oval court measuring 7.5 meters by 5 meters. The entrance to the transeptal or cruciform chamber...

Word Count : 896

Antonin Scalia

Last Update:

justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist...

Word Count : 15705

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net