A Terrible Calamity
By
Alke Schmidt
2017
- Mixed Media
- Sculpture
- Craft and Design
- Textiles
- Mixed Media
- Bradford
- Wool Industry
- Memorial
- Wall Based Sculpture
- Funding / Award
- Residency
- Exhibition
Dimensions
85 x 100 cm
Found clothes and fabric, acrylic, bobbins, thread and wool on linen, 85 x 100 cm.
Work in response to the disastrous collapse of the Newlands Mill in Bradford in 1882, resulting in 54 fatalities. Each bobbin represents a worker who died.
