Daphne Wright, home ornaments

McKee, Francis; Morrisey, Simon

Francis McKee

Simon Morrissey Simon.Morrissey@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor of Fine Art

Book Type	Authored Book
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2006
Peer Reviewed	Not Peer Reviewed
Book Title	Daphne Wright, Home Ornaments
ISBN	9780951495353
Keywords	Daphne Wright, home ornaments
Public URL	https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1044668
Publisher URL	http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/publications/artist/daphne_wright
Additional Information	Additional Information : Home Ornaments is the collective name for a group of objects created by the artist Daphne Wright to be presented to individual owners of new flats built during the recent redevelopment of the Gorbals in Glasgow. Unusually, Wright's work conceives of the public arena as knowledge and narrative - and the way in which this circulates amongst us - rather than as any form of physical space. Home Ornaments was created to function as much through a secondary life of anecdote and argument as it was as objects. The publication contains two essays. "Shelf Life: A Pocket Encyclopaedia" by Francis McKee is an alphabetical primer reflecting the idiosyncratic mix of voices and references that provided the context for the artist's conceptual process. Simon Morrissey's critical essay explores Home Ornaments' distinctive relationship to debates around 'context' and 'art in the public realm', focusing on the reception of the work, and the contentions over aesthetics, meaning, value and ownership of the work generated. Morrissey led panel discussions on the theme 'Autonomy versus Context' at Arnolfini, Bristol on 21 February 2007.

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