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Kathy Prendergast

Multitudinous Canadian Lakes No. 1, 2003

Description

Maker

  • Kathy Prendergast, Irish

Title

Multitudinous Canadian Lakes No. 1

Year

2003

Medium

Graphite on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • graphite

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 64.8 x 100 cm (25 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2007.12.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

Made in the UK

Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Made in the UK

September 23, 2011 - January 8, 2012

In this work, Prendergast used aeronautical maps of Canadian lakes, weaving them together in a way not related to actual locations, but in reference to her own process. She deliberately rejected systematized orientation and classification, divesting the original maps of their coded information and merely transcribing the network of lines that convey the shape of the lakes. In this way the map no longer acts as an informational tool, but instead plots the artist’s imagination.

The Primacy of Paper

January 15 - June 20, 2010

Irish artist Kathy Prendergast transforms commonplace items such as maps, bits of clothing, human hair, and household objects in order to draw our attention to issues of identity, political power, and individual experience. In this work, Prendergast used aeronautical maps of Canadian lakes, weaving them together in a way not related to actual locations, but in reference to her own process. She deliberately rejected systematized orientation and classification, divesting the original maps of their coded information and merely transcribing the network of lines that convey the shape of the lakes. In this way the map no longer acts as an informational tool, but instead plots the artist’s imagination.

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