After the Gold Rush

By Marilyn Rathbone 2013

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scanned from the Guardian newspaper

Jewellery and Metalwork
Sculpture
Craft and Design
Braiding
Dna
Conceptual
Mobile
Textiles

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