Dead in the water
(1999)
Medium
polyvinyl chloride, glass beads, silver wire, glass, wood and transparent synthetic polymer resin
Measurements
(a-e) 106.2 × 129.1 × 129.2 cm (installation)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1999
© Fiona Hall
Gallery location
Gallery 9
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Fiona Hall began her career as a photographer in the 1970s but is recognised today as one of Australia’s pre-eminent installation artists. Dead in the water belongs to a series of vitrine (glass cabinet) installations through which Hall has examined a range of social concerns such as colonisation, environmental degeneration and Western systems of knowledge and classification. Common consumer materials such as PVC pipe and glass beads are selected for their symbolic associations and transformed into delicate biomorphic forms through a range of traditional craft techniques.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Adelaide, South Australia
Accession Number
1999.356.a-e
Department
Australian Sculpture