A COLLECTOR’S JOURNEY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM

Jane Simpson (b. 1965)
Shadows Between Black and White
silicone rubber and formica plinth
plinth: 41⅜ x 13⅞ x 13⅞in. (105 x 35.3 x 35.3cm.)
overall 53⅜ x 13⅞ x 13⅞in. (130.5 x 35.3 x 35.3cm.)
Executed in 2000

Provenance:
Asprey Jacques, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

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Specialist Notes:

Jane Simpson’s Shadows Between Black and White is a play of dichotomies in form, colour and material. The artist takes the form of everyday glass bottles and re-conceives them in black and white silicone. The material properties of silicone contrast with the transparency and fragility of glass; in so doing, Simpson prompts the viewer to re-examine the familiar and see the everyday with a renewed vision. Shadows Between Black and White also finds an affinity with traditional still-life. In its meditation on a single object in its different forms, Simpson undoubtedly recalls the intensely focused still-life paintings of Georgio Morandi.

Known for creating sculptures in a diverse and unorthodox range of materials including precious metals, household objects, and unusually ice, refrigeration and preservation, Simpson’s practice demonstrates a sustained interest in exploring transformative process. A student at the Royal Academy in the 1990s, Simpson exhibited in Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, curated by Damien Hirst at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1994 and was included in Sensation at the Royal Academy, London in 1997.

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