327. Phoenix
Title: Phoenix
Date: 1979
Subject: Egyptian mythological bird
Measurements: 41 ½” W x 1 ½” D x 33 ¼” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden forms
Description: A variety of flat wooden forms are fashioned together to create the body of a bird. The bird’s body is the shape of a beehive with a triangular area cutout from it. Projecting from the top of the body is a wooden form shaped like a bird’s head. Two, identical crescent-shaped wooden forms are attached on either side of the area where the head meets the bird’s body, representing the bird’s outstretched wings.
Signed: “NSG 79” etched onto back
Note: Exhibited at Camden Art Centre, 1980. Also exhibited as #20 “Phoenix” at Duncan Campbell’s gallery in 1994. Cost: 3,750 British pounds. Featured in publications and brochures such as: Excel Magazine: For Men in Pursuit of Excellence, summer edition 1993; A brochure from the 1994 exhibition at Duncan Campbell’s gallery; and PPR- Public Policy Review, Vol. 3, Issue 6, 1995.