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Description: | CRE COCKER, Doug; (Scottish; b.1945) Commissioned in 1986 to hang in the Hunterian's Side Gallery, (currently the shop). There is also a maquette in the collection GLAHA 44365). The image show the original installation.
Doug Cocker's ability to make dead wood live again through the daring imagination of the form it can be made to take, combined with a sure sense of craftsmanship, make him one of Scotland's outstanding contemporary sculptors. Rather than purchase an existing work, the Gallery commissioned three maquettes from the artist specifically for this carved stairwell work. This large sculpture was developed from one of his proposals. During the long period needed to conceive and execute the piece, the artist's approach to sculpture underwent radical changes. The title reflects the frustration of completing a major work in a style that he had otherwise abandoned. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ABSTRACT : SCULPTURE : COMMISSION : CAMPUS : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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