Detail View: SHIMMER: untitled
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Title:
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untitled
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Creation Date:
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1972
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Image Date:
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1996
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Period:
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20th century
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Location:
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Country:
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ENGLAND, UK
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Display Creator:
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MACDONALD, Bryan
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Image ID:
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97-0421
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Description:
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Exterior view: with fundraising chart attached on top of it. [photographed in 1996] Location: Weston Park Hospital, facing Whitham Road. (AZ p98 2B) Description: Rectangular steel relief, decorated with circular, cellular, shapes whose surface is made up of a number of flat planes. A central square section of the sculpture consists of smaller, broken, forms which rotate very slowly both clockwise and anti-clockwise. These represent the division of cancer cells surrounded by larger, healthy cells. The wall below the sculpture is badly stained. Commission: Commissioned by a Dr King who was a consultant at Weston Park Hospital. The cost of the piece was £30,000 and was funded by the J.G. Graves Charitable Trust. Weston Park Hospital is one of only three purpose built specialist cancer hospitals in the UK. The moving portions of the piece were switched off after complaints about noise from patients and staff at the hospital. Efforts were made to lubricate the moving parts and subsequent leaking fluid from the motors is thought to be responsible for the staining on the exterior wall of the hospital. Installation of the work was a difficult and complicated undertaking requiring the use of specialist equipment including a thermic lance. Comment: For most of the 1990's the piece was obscured by a Cancer Care Appeal chart fixed in front of the sculpture and registering the progress of the Appeal. This has now been removed (April 1998). MacDonald was Head of Sculpture at Sheffield City Polytechnic at the time this work was made and subsequently emigrated to Darwin, Australia where he died in 1990.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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MACDONALD, Bryan
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Creator Dates - Born:
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1932
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Creator Dates - Died:
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1990
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Creator Role:
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Sculptor.
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Culture Gender:
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Male.
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Nationality:
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British.
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Subject Heading:
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Public art -- England -- Sheffield
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Subject Heading:
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Steel, Stainless
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Subject Heading:
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Sculpture -- England -- Sheffield
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Subject Heading:
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Sculpture -- 1900-2000
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Subject Heading:
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Kinetic sculpture
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Subject Heading:
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Fund raising
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