The Persistent Yellowing (Time Piece)
Teelah GEORGE: artist
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(The work title) employs embroidery and bronze as a means to consider time, materiality and the entropy of all things. Yellowing refers to the colour yellow, whilst also suggesting a process of material change occurring over time. Here the yellow cotton thread, obsessively amassed over a five-month period, becomes an abstracted, golden surface while the bronze, a material commonly associated with monumental permanence, is the support structure. This play on words and context becomes a means of subverting material hierarchies, and considering both the intended and inevitable effects of time. (Artists's statement)
Title
The Persistent Yellowing (Time Piece)
Artist/Maker and role
Teelah GEORGE: artist
Date
2016
Medium
cotton thread, linen, bronze
Measurements
170.0 x 150.0cm
Display location
Credit line
Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2017
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2017/0094