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Anya Gallaccio |
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'Forest Floor' Chiltern Sculpture Trail 1995 Copyright of the artist, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London |
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Anya Gallaccio installed a bright factory-made carpet onto the forest floor. A surprise tactic to remind us that forestry is itself a rural industry, the countryside not necessarily the peaceful idyll that is often painted. A manufactured product was introduced into the heart of the forest, yet the carpet also imitated nature in a way it covered the ground and mimicked a natural flower and leaf design. What, asked the artist, is natural and what unnatural? The carpet was intended to have a temporary life: in time it was destroyed by the growth of the surrounding trees and the effects of the weather. Yet, for a while, the carpet and the forest co-existed harmoniously. |
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Anya Gallaccio was born in Paisley, Scotland. She studied at Kingston Polytechnic, London, 1984 - 1985, and Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1985 - 1988. Early in her career she participated in two seminal London group exhibitions, Freeze in 1988 and the East Country Yard Show in 1990. Since then she has shown extensively in Europe, the USA and Japan.. In 2002 she was invited to undertake a commission for Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, where she created an installation incorporating the monumental trunks of seven felled oak trees. In 2003 she was short-listed for the Turner Prize at Tate Britain, London. Recent solo exhibitions and activities include: 2008 The Camden Arts Centre, London, Kinsale Arts Festival, Comfort and Convsersation , Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam: 2007 Three Sheets to the Wind Thomas Dane Gallery, London: 2006 Galleria Leme, Sao Paulo, One Art Sculpture Centre New York: 2005 Shadow on the things you know Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, Silver Seed Mount Stuart Trust, Isle of Bute Scotland, The Look of Things Palazzodelle Papesse, Siena Italy. She lives and works in London |
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