Shrine 1980/84 - 1987

700 x 400 x 400 cm
A large freestanding construction / sculpture – with its own light, surveillance and sound systems

.Mild steel, copper plated cladding, black canvas, free standing marble structures, mirror lined marble sarcophagus, bronze objects, amp and deck, loudspeaker, tape loop, halogen spot light, silk flag and slow moving surveillance camera.

List Description:

  • 1 large metal platform
  • 9 three step high, metal rostra
  • 1 mansard metal structure with black canvas and patinated copper cladding
  • 1 marble sarcophagus like box with under strip lighting and mirror
  • 6 maquette monuments in various colours, kinds and quality of marble
  • 10 bronze objects with stove enamel, silver and nicol plate and patinas
  • 1 video surveillance camera
  • 1 exterior halogen night light
  • 1 tannoy loud speaker
  • 1 up-side down flag pole
  • 1 illuminated flag
  • 1 ten minute tape loop
  • 1 video monitor
  • 1 chair
  • 2 computer consoles issuing various statistics
  • 2 adjacent man-sized cubicals
  • Immediate area of the construction invested with disconcerting odour
Documentary Monumentes to Collapse

Exhibition provenance / history:

• Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1987
• Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 1987
• Foyle Arts Project, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1987
• Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 1988
• Imperial War Museum, London, 1988
• City Art Gallery, Southampton, 1988