Arc Right Angle (M26)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Robert Marsden
Title
Arc Right Angle
Made in
London
Date
1983
Description
Brass form, two sides intersecting at a curved right angle.
Materials and techniques
Made from gilding metal (red brass). Pierced from sheet metal, edges bevelled and silver soldered: patinated. Blue-green patina achieved by burying the object in a mixture containing liquid ammonia, ammonium chloride and sodium chloride (common salt), for about two weeks.
Dimensions
length: 16cm
width: 30cm
Object number
M26
Category
Maker's statement
This object is one of a series of pieces using curved forms and is subsequent to a series of jug-like forms composed entirely of straight, linear elements. Such work is probably partially due to a desire to produce a number of pieces more immediately than the extremely time-consuming silver and bronze, lost-wax cast cups I was making previously. Whilst visually the new work appears to be totally different from the elaborate cups, it still contains the same strong peronsal feelings I have about my work and I believe it also relates back quite well to even earlier work I was doing in the late sixties.