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Socket

Joseph Ingleby

Dimensions
94cm x 84cm x 91cm

Courtesy of
Friends of The Royal Scottish Acadmey Bursary 1998/Scottish Arts Council/The Hope-Scott Trust

Volumetric sculpture made of rolled sheet steel with an inner core of softer copper sheet. The outer form is both nautical and seed-like, the inner a more architectural yoke, creating a negative socket shape. Explores ideas of metamorphosis, positive and negative, artificial and natural. Suitable for interior siting.
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