Screen: The July Grass (B48)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Alison Urwick
Title
Screen: The July Grass
Made in
Oxfordshire
Date
1993
Description
Six panels of Nepalese paper, framed by sycamore with ebony corners, with gouache painting of plants and butterflies and a poem.
Materials and techniques
Sycamore frames with ebony corners. Nepalese paper backed with silk, grasses between, stuck with flour paste. Stick ink and vermillion mixed, ruling pen. Gouache painting. Hinges waxed linen.
Object number
B48
Category
Maker's statement
My proposal is something I have wanted to try for ages...The text is a wonderful evocation of English meadowland and the wonder of living things. As 98% of our grasslands have been destroyed since the war, let alone since 1850, I feel it should have elegiac overtones - perhaps a black wrapper/box with information. I know this is rather doom and gloom but one must try to promote understanding. (from A.Urwick's original proposal)