Over the Water 2001
Date: 2001
Dimensions: 2 x 1.5m
Materials: Ceramic
Techniques: Relief ceramic tiles monoprinted and decorated with coloured slips and glazes.
Multiple fired to build up layers of colours and textures.
Commissioned by: Causeway Health and Social Services Trust
Location: Accident and Emergency Department ,Causeway Hospital, Coleraine.
Architects:
Description: A ceramic artwork in the A & E department of Coleraine Hospital with illustrations of poems within a dynamic spiral/wave shape.
Concept: From a distance this is seen as a series of spirals representing the sea intersected by a series of ceramic fish like shapes.
Close-up , each spiral contains an illustration of a poem with references either to humorous accidents or the sea.
Poems Included:
Bones—Walter de la Mare
Inconsiderate Hannah—Harry Graham
Nine Mice—Jack Prelutsky
Tell Me , Tell Me Sarah-Jane -Charles Causley
As I went Over The Water—Anon
Kitty—Colin West
