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Description: | The texture of this piece is intended to resemble a primitive form of cloth known as 'bark cloth'. Bark cloth is made in central Africa and has numerous uses including clothing. Gillian Lowndes has reproduced the appearance of bark cloth using long lengths of fibreglass dipped in liquid porcelain, which has then been coiled tightly. This coiling perhaps refers to the way in which bark cloth is stored in rolls by African tribal chiefs. Gillian Lowndes first visited Nigeria in 1940 and African art has influenced much of her work. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East craft makers ceramics other cultures contemporary craft | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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