After the Gold Rush
By
Marilyn Rathbone
2013
scanned from the Guardian newspaper
Dimensions
170 x 50 x 5 cm (overall), longest tube 3.8 diameter x 125 cm long
Created in 2004 to highlight controversial issues surrounding gene patenting, "Your Genes in Their Hands" has now been reworked and renamed "After the Gold Rush" to celebrate the June 2013 Supreme Court ruling overturning thirty years of patent awards.
Materials: wire, beads, perspex tubing
Techniques: hand-woven Inkle braids
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