Stephen Ashdown, Dirt, 2007
Artist: Stephen Ashdown
Title: Dirt
Year: 2007
Medium: Series of four embossed print
Dimensions: H: 76cm W: 76cm [For moving image, add duration]
Accession Number: T68
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Karen Lyons, Iron, 2007
Artist: Karen Lyons
Title: Iron
Year: 2007
Medium: sculpture
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Location: Mary Seacole Building, Frederick Road campus, University of Salford
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Clasp was commissioned for the inauguration of the Mary Seacole Building – a place of learning for nurses. Mary Seacole is a heroine of the Crimean War and an iconic figure for the nursing profession.
Clasp represents a nurturing gesture – formed from the interior space when two hands are gently clasped, as if protecting a delicate life.
Produced with assistance by students from Albion High School, Salford.
Made in association with Architects Atherden Fuller Leng.
Tian Taiquan, Totem Recollection 3, 2007
Artist: Tian Taiquan
Title: Totem Recollection 3
Year: 2007
Medium: Colour C-Print
Dimensions: 60 x 185cm
Accession Number: US2013-04
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Totem Recollection 3, 2007, presents a near-lifesize female figure partially dressed in the green uniform of the Chinese Communist Party lying on a field of badges depicting Chairman Mao. The image evokes the suffering of those who experienced the Cultural Revolution, and the ways in which individual identity was drowned in a sea of propaganda. In the contrast between the erotic pale flesh of the figure and the incessant, overwhelming figure of Mao, Tain evokes the experiences of a generation of people, whose youth and energy was curtailed according to the demands of the Party. Although her chest is exposed, the woman covers her face with her hand, conveying, perhaps, a desire to lay bare her identity while ever conscious of the need for self-censorship.
‘The Cultural Revolution was an age of madness when females were completely masculinised with a phony propaganda appearance. I use the female nude to reveal basic physical and material desires, mocking the imprisonment of humanity that occurred during the Cultural Revolution when people were arbitrarily killed for random reasons. No respect was paid to human dignity, human rights, or life. The liveliness and sacredness of human life is a topic I seek to express through the depiction of female nudes in my work’. Source: Interview with artist Tian Taiquan with OCULA magazine
Tian graduated in 1988 from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Exhibitions include: PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool (2018); Perspectives, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore (2015); Tian Taiquan: Memory of Time, Hayward Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia (2013); Totem Recollection, Tian Taiquan Photographic Exhibition, Hong Kong, (2012); 7010 – Life After People, Chongqing, China (2010).
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