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Large Reflection Bowl 2012
Maker: Toch, Adi
Malleable brass, spun, raised and hard soldered, cleaned with pumice stones and sanding pads to achieve a tactile satin finish, then silver-plated, and patinated using an ammonia compound. The interior contains tiny stainless-steel ball bearings.
History note: Purchased by Sir Nicholas Goodison from Contemporary Applied Art, 2 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DD, who exhibited it at 'Collect 2012' The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects held 11-14 May 2012 at the Saatchi Gallery, London
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund
Diameter: 24.9 cm
Height: 10.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2012-06-11) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2012
Adi Toch writes of her creations: 'My work invites the observer to touch, play and discover hidden spaces and unexpected motion.' This bowl belongs to her Tactile Series 'designed to contain substances which attract attention through their sensory qualities but cannot be retrieved. Handling the vessels triggers the senses by their smooth surface as well as by the sound and fluidity of the particles held inside.'
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Adi Toch studied at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem followed by an MA at The Cass, London Metropolitan University. She established her own studio in London in 2009 and came to early notice through her ability to create poetic forms in metal which explore the history and qualities of the vessel form. This work is part of a series of bowls which investigated experimental colouring techniques using a liquid compound of ammonia that creates rich tones on the surface of the metal: each application producing a unique effect. Toch describes bowls of this form as an exploration of the tension between symmetry and dissonance and of the theme of containment: the ball bearings inside cannot escape. She teaches part time in both London and Jerusalem and has work in a growing number of public collections: this work was her first to be collected for a museum. Adi Toch: ‘The practice of making vessels and containers fascinates me as it enables me to work both with metal and space as materials, redefining borders between inside and outside.’
Surface
composed of
silver
( plated with silver)
Part
composed of
gilding
malleable Brass (alloy)
Accession number: M.1-2012
Primary reference Number: 197307
Entry Form no.: 1070
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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