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Curved Bench with Trough
Production:
Partridge, Jim
Production:
Walmsley, Liz
Oak, carved, and blackened. Curved and tapering block of wood with a tapering trough in the top of the narrowest part
History note: Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DD, from whom purchased by the donors
Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Length: 272 cm
Length: 294 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2004-10-11) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2004
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Jim Partridge studied at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood, establishing an independent studio in Dorset in 1979 and winning early acclaim for a series of turned and carved wooden vessels. Partridge established his studio in Shropshire in 1984, and has been working in partnership with Liz Walmsley since 1988. Liz Walmsley studied at the University of Wales, intent on a career in education until she started work in a pottery and changed direction. For the past twentyfive years, Partridge and Walmsley have created a dynamic portfolio of site-specific urban and rural commissions – bridges, seats, shelters – and works for domestic interiors which have redefined the use of timber in contemporary design. Working in direct, improvisational ways, mostly with oak, they carve out forms which invite and respond to use – be they monumental blackened benches or finely turned and carved bowls. Public commissions include pieces for Sustrans; Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford (which won an art in architecture award in 2003); Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick; and Ardtornish Estate in Scotland. ‘Everything they do has a tremendous physical presence, a sort of monumentality, even in the smallest works, yet also a lightness and poise.’ - Richard Ingleby, Director, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley: ‘In the first wave of curved benches, working round a defect in the timber we realised that one of our options was to make a bench which had storage, for plants, or wine bottles, or newspapers as well as a seating area.’ A life history interview with Jim Partridge is available at http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Crafts
At Highest
Height 39.5 cm
At Widest
Width 43 cm
not yet known what
Black pigment
Oak
Carving
: Blackened oak, carved
Blackening
Accession number: M.8-2004
Primary reference Number: 118389
Entry form: 609
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: 71
Accession Number: EC.7-1943
Accession Number: HEN.M.288-1933
Accession Number: O.39-1946
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