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Pertinent Folly
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Stoke-on-Trent
2002
The exhibition Pertinent Folly (The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery), gave me an opportunity to build on the approach developed for Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. I was invited to radically re-present the extensive collection of Goya prints at PMAG – in order to trigger associations with unfolding contemporary events. For both projects, conservation approval was intrinsic to the realization of the work.
Normalization by Stephen Boyd
Digital print on panel, die cast model under perforated glass, incorporating Cruel Folly by Francisco Goya, etching.
Two ceramic objects: Figure of Charity earthenware Staffordshire c1790 & Model of a tank, manufactured by Alfred B. Jones Ltd, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (Grafton China) 1916.
Digital print on panel, die cast model under perforated glass, incorporating Cruel Folly by Francisco Goya, etching.
Two ceramic objects: Figure of Charity earthenware Staffordshire c1790 & Model of a tank, manufactured by Alfred B. Jones Ltd, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (Grafton China) 1916.
Normalization by Stephen Boyd
Digital print on panel, die cast model under perforated glass, incorporating Cruel Folly by Francisco Goya, etching.
Two ceramic objects: Figure of Charity earthenware Staffordshire c1790 & Model of a tank, manufactured by Alfred B. Jones Ltd, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (Grafton China) 1916 (detail)
Digital print on panel, die cast model under perforated glass, incorporating Cruel Folly by Francisco Goya, etching.
Two ceramic objects: Figure of Charity earthenware Staffordshire c1790 & Model of a tank, manufactured by Alfred B. Jones Ltd, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (Grafton China) 1916 (detail)
Overture by Stephen Boyd
Transfer print and watercolour on ivory piano keys, 2002
Transfer print and watercolour on ivory piano keys, 2002
Pertinent Folly - Installation view - The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Quinta del Sordo by Stephen Boyd
Marshall stack, glass and plastic lettering, 2002
Incorporating Fearful Folly by Francisco Goya, etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint (detail)
Marshall stack, glass and plastic lettering, 2002
Incorporating Fearful Folly by Francisco Goya, etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint (detail)
Dormant by Stephen Boyd
Digital print on panel & digital counter, 2002
Incorporating Evident Folly (Disparate claro or Los Proverbios No. 15) by Francisco Goya, etching, burnished acquatint and lavis. (detail).
Digital print on panel & digital counter, 2002
Incorporating Evident Folly (Disparate claro or Los Proverbios No. 15) by Francisco Goya, etching, burnished acquatint and lavis. (detail).