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Artworks2001This is not a melon

This is not a melon

This is not a melon

Painted bronze

97 x 51 x 51 cms

2001

A bronze cast of a large melon painted to resemble an over inflated liquorice pipe.

  • Food
  • Melons
  • Pipes
  • Trompe L'oeil

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Exhibitions

Copper JubileeThe New Art Gallery Walsall2002
Negotiation of Purpose (Grenoble)Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporian, Grenoble2007
Surrealism & BeyondVon Bartha Collection, Basel2016

Essays

Trompe L'oeilRikke Hansen
Plato's CaveRachel Newsome
Redundancy of SymbolismCharlie Porter

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