CHRISTINA MACKIE : THE JUDGES III

9 Mar-28 Apr 2013

Overview

Commissioned by Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, through the Contemporary Art Society’s Annual Award for Museums - Commission to Collect - one of the biggest contemporary art prizes in the UK. The Judges III is a carefully choreographed tableau of objects, sketches, photographs and materials, which unfold along handmade trestle tables, as if a train of thought has been made visible. Mackie combines natural, manmade and crafted materials to create a complex web of associations. Subtle references to landscape are made with paintings, in clay and by the inclusion of rocks and mineral specimens and The Judges III draws on research in Nottingham and on her recent visit to Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/our-work-with-public-collections/the-annual-award