Details

Object type

sculpture

Title

Winter Trees IV

Artist/Maker

Jacqueline Donachie maker

Place Associated

Scotland, Glasgow (place of manufacture)

Date

2016

Materials

aluminium, silk cord

Dimensions

overall: 4070 mm x 5000 mm

Description

In Winter Trees IV scaffolding tubes become an elegant form dissecting the gallery space and occupy the space attached to the wall by a hand crafted silk ‘net’ gathered and knotted to the aluminium part of the sculpture. Elongated and upright, not quite on human scale, their posture and presence references previous works by Donachie such as streetlight drawings (Glimmer I-V), Studio 1995 and Pose Work for Sisters 2016.

Winter Trees IV is part of a series of sculptures by Donachie which are stark in their choice of materials: industrial, practical and immovable, however in contrast they have very emotive and poetic titles playing on boundaries between the external public experience and the often internal lived experiences. The Winter Trees title is taken from a Sylvia Plath poem alluding to moments of care when you are awake outside of your normal routine hours and start to see the landscape and environment around you in different way.

Credit Line/Donor

Purchased from Patricia Fleming Projects with assistance from the National Fund for Acquistions, 2016

ID Number

S.484

Location

In storage