Although the puff adder cannot fly it has caught the hornbill (Ashanti Proverb) (P384)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Gillian Lowndes
Title
Although the puff adder cannot fly it has caught the hornbill (Ashanti Proverb)
Made in
Camberwell
Date
1986
Description
Abstract form assembled from a bent steel strip, with a coil of wire extending from one end, and a square steel form emerging from the other.
Materials and techniques
Bent mild steel strip stuffed with Egyptian paste, fired in a sagger of red Kew sand to 1000 deg. C. Other materials include nichrome wire, clinker etc.
Dimensions
height: 29cm
length: 8.6cm
width: 42cm
Object number
P384
Category
Maker's statement
One of the most important pieces in a group of work produced over a year for the Crafts Council solo exhibition in 1987.
