Dove of Peace

Heywood, Anthony (2014) Dove of Peace. [Public art, Sculpture]

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Creators:

Heywood, Anthony

Description/Abstract:

My ideas of using the iconic readymade are reinterpreted in the 'Dove of Peace', a paper spitfire, when the mundane is exchanged for the spectacle of an icon of the twentieth century, a near legendary aeroplane with many associations which once again plunge the viewer into competing complexities. The spitfire symbolises heroism, individualism and belief, it symbolises self-preservation, fear and the shattering of young lives. The idea of me casting a full size spitfire in paper is on one level a quixotic notion, heightened by the immense number of technical problems it inevitable posed. The challenge is not only the rendering of the ephemeral into the massively durable, but the jolting of the senses into recognition of changed values of waste, worthlessness and the passage of time. It is this juxtaposition of image and material which informs and empowers what we see. It makes us reconsider, re-evaluate and dare to reject complacency. The aesthetic must leave its sheltered accommodation before it is too late, before it atrophies into an exhibit in Fukayama’s museum of history, an object of disinterested contemplation dead to a world we dare not contemplate.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Date:

2014

Funders:

Dover Harbour Board, Arjo Wiggins Paper Mill, British Steel, University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, ICR-Inter Regional Cultural Regional funding, Free4M design team, Dover Operatic Society, Stevens & Carlotti steel profiling, Parker Steel Canterbury, FM Conways

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Port of Dover’s Historic Cruise Terminal 1

22 December 2014

2018

Additional Information:

A series of community workshops are being organised by Dover Harbour Board and Dover Arts Development.

Schools:

School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography

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