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Helen Chadwick, Piss Flowers, 1991-1992, installation image Frieze Sculpture Park, 2013, Photo FXP Photography
Exhibition
Helen Chadwick: Piss Flowers
14 May 2016 – 17 Jul 2016
Address
- Wilkieston
- Bonnington House Steadings
- Edinburgh
- EH27 8BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 27 or X27 from Dalry Road, Edinburgh City to Jupiter Artland/Coxydene
- Edinburgh Haymarket, followed by bus
About
British conceptual artist Helen Chadwick embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “normal” and “traditional” in art historical pedagogy. Her influence upon a young generation of British artists was cemented through her teaching posts at the Royal College of Art, Chelsea School of Art and the London Institute.
Her experiments with material were innovative and unconventional and captured a world in a state of flux. Piss Flowers (1991-92), in which she cast the interior spaces left in the snow by warm urine, are at once repulsive as they are beautiful, and it is this combination that typifies Chadwick’s work - aesthetic beauty created out of an alliance of unconventional, often vile materials.
One of the first nominees for the Turner Prize in 1987 her work is included in the Tate Collection as well as the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
