Details
- Object type
sculpture; construction; mixed media
- Title
Hound of Geevor
- Artist/Maker
- Culture/School
British
- Place Associated
England, Geevor (place made)
- Materials
mixed media, rubber, wood
- Dimensions
overall: 749 mm x 632 mm x 292 mm
- Description
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Sculpture of a dog constructed of seven rubber boots attached to a wooden armature. Four boots are used for legs, one for back and tail, and further two for head.
This sculpture is part of a larger series of rubber boot sculptures called Hounds of Geevor. They are all constructed of redundant miners’ boots from the Geevor Tin Mines in Cornwall that closed in 1990. After a friend, then working on maintenance staff at Geevor alerted Kemp that piles of old boots are being scraped, he decided to collect them and turn them into artworks creating “relics of a vast subterranean workforce that rarely saw the light of day. Each of these Hounds fed up to three and a half families (seven boots per dog). Released from their underground labours, they are now looking for a proper job.” (Quotation from the artist’s blog).
- ID Number
S.407
- Location
Kelvingrove SW Mini Museum