Ben Nevis on Blue

Claude Heath (1964 - )

Acrylic on polyester

2004

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection

    During a residency at Cambridge University, Claude Heath worked with astronomy and aerial photography staff to produce images derived from stereoscopic photographs of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain. This work is based on photographs he sketched while continuously looking through a stereoscope. Some individual marks that represented natural features in the original drawings, were replaced with an abstract system of dots and dashes.

  • About the artist
    Claude Heath was born in London in 1964. He studied philosophy at King’s College in London from 1983 to 1986, where he became interested in exploring systems of knowledge and how they are cognitively organized. He began working as an artist directly after completing his BA, with solo exhibitions at Hales Gallery London in 1995 and 1998. Heath won the NatWest Art Prize 1999. He has had solo exhibitions in New York (2001); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2002); the Netherlands (2006); Austria (2008) and Berlin (2005 and 2008).
  • Explore
    Places
    Scotland, Highland, Ben Nevis
    Subjects
    topography, abstract, landscape C21st, mountain
    Materials & Techniques
    polyester, acrylic (paint), acrylic painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Claude Heath (1964 - )
    Title
    Ben Nevis on Blue
    Date
    2004
    Medium
    Acrylic on polyester
    Dimensions
    height: 180.00 cm, width: 186.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from the artist, December 2004
    Inscription
    verso on stretcher bar: CLAUDE HEATH 180cm x 186cm ; verso on stretcher cross bar: BEN NEVIS ON BLUE CLAUDE HEATH / 2004
    Provenance
    the artist
    GAC number
    17891