Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot

Location

Country: Thailand
City: Bangkok
Place: British Embassy

This print uses a motif that recurs regularly in Anthea Hamilton’s work; a two dimensional ‘wavey boot’. Previously manifested in a wide range of material; alabaster, walnut, ceramic, the boot is always at 1:1 scale; a size 6 boot.

Hamilton’s edition, entitled Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot is a proposal drawing for an unlikely apartment building. Made as a silkscreen print, the boot sits in high relief, two dimensional and flat, like many of Hamilton’s sculptures. The image is built from precisely balanced muted colours and glossy details against a background of pure red to give an illusionistic depth that is both vertiginous and seductive.

Anthea Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, where she continues to live and work. She took over the Duveen Galleries for the Tate Britain Commission in 2018, showing sculptural works and performance. She has had solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna, Austria (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2016); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); and Glasgow International (2014). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in various museums in Europe, the US and the UK. She was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2016 and her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2019.

Places

Subjects

boot, apartment block

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), print (as object name), screenprint

Artist

Anthea Hamilton (1978 - )

Title

Thirteen Storey Wavey Boot

Edition

Number 18 in an edition of 40

Date

2017

Medium

screenprint on paper

Dimensions

height: 87.1 cm; width: 47.0 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Whitechapel Gallery, January 2020

Inscription

recto: inscribed by the artist 'anthea Hamilton', bottom right; '18/40', bottom left

Provenance

Whitechapel Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased from UK Government Art Collection, 9 January 2020

GAC number

18845