Concrete Wiggle
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2019
Artist: Lucie MacGregor (British)
Dimensions:
Concrete wiggle: 48 x 74 x 20 cm
Bike Locks Entangled: 32 x 28 x 20 cm
Medium: Concrete, wax, mixed media
Object number: UAC 976
DescriptionLucie studied BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She says in her artist's statement about the larger installation these objects were part of:
'‘PavementJAM’ is a gathering of grouped assemblages, a facade of pavements creasing and folding apart, hooped and latched between wax and plaster bike locks. The different supports, both horizontal and erected, hold microcosms of fossilised materials, suspended into a catalogue of artificial representations of street miscellaneous. Towering compressed billboards hang in a lurch above the ground-based formations, correlating through repeated screen-printed images, colour and residual textures. John Ruskin spoke of the ‘ground as a veil’, describing temporary covering (being the pavement) but not complete cover up (the earth still exists below). As surface wears, the depths are revealed. These cracks and ethereal veiling are referenced within my installation, with rigid steel and wood hidden by the thin sheen of draped translucent cotton and curled foam.'
'‘PavementJAM’ is a gathering of grouped assemblages, a facade of pavements creasing and folding apart, hooped and latched between wax and plaster bike locks. The different supports, both horizontal and erected, hold microcosms of fossilised materials, suspended into a catalogue of artificial representations of street miscellaneous. Towering compressed billboards hang in a lurch above the ground-based formations, correlating through repeated screen-printed images, colour and residual textures. John Ruskin spoke of the ‘ground as a veil’, describing temporary covering (being the pavement) but not complete cover up (the earth still exists below). As surface wears, the depths are revealed. These cracks and ethereal veiling are referenced within my installation, with rigid steel and wood hidden by the thin sheen of draped translucent cotton and curled foam.'