Ceylon III

Location

Country: Sri Lanka
City: Colombo
Place: British High Commission

'Ceylon III' is scanned from a 1945 map that once belonged to Chris Drury's uncle. Used and folded over time, mildewed and annotated in pen, it is redolent of Britain's colonial past, and of Drury's family history. Superimposed on it is a spore print from a mushroom, its natural patterns indicating its lifecycle, a subject that is of great interest to Drury. This circular pattern provides the foundation for minute lines of intricately handwritten text which relate to Drury's childhood in Ceylon, and his later trip to Sri Lanka in 1987. The work is a unique form of landscape depiction, not only of a place, but also of individual recollection.

Places

Asia, Sri Lanka

Subjects

map (as Subject), topography, text-based work

Materials & Techniques

ink, Ink drawing, inkjet print

Artist

Chris Drury (1948 - )

Title

Ceylon III

Edition

unique

Date

2005

Medium

Digital inkjet print with handwritten text in ink

Dimensions

height: 100.00 cm, width: 61.00 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist, February 2005

Inscription

see object note

Provenance

the artist (commission)

GAC number

18014