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vase, coiled, handbuilt and biscuit fired terracotta, London, c 1985
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Toothbrush, 'Dr Kiss' designed by Philippe Stark, thermoplastic resin and ABS polymer, London, c1997 #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Virgin Mary bottle for holy water, injection molded polypropylene, Stary Sącz Poland c1996
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First prototype of a possible chair. It's inspired by Enzo Mari's ideas of being able to make domestic necessities, using stock timber, simple hand tools and everyday skills. There's an echo of Utility furniture from the 1940s and a hint of Gerrit Rietveld's prototype Red and Blue chair from 1917 too.
Chair prototype 1, standard section pine, plywood and super-screws, London c2018.
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Holy water (possibly from the well of Zamzam) unknown plastic and water, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, c1995 #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1774. Following a career as a surgeon in London and Middlesex he was appointed Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh University in 1836. His most important work was on the nervous system and he was the first to identify that the anterior and posterior spinal nerve roots had different functions. He discovered that lesion of the seventh facial nerve causes facial paralysis and Bell's Palsy is named for him.
Bell was also a gifted artist and published several illustrated works including The Anatomy of the Human Body (1797), The Anatomy of the Brain (1802), and Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery (1821) among others. His talent would serve him well when he undertook duties at the Haslar Naval Hospital in Portsmouth in 1809, treating casualties of the Battle of Corunna. He returned with a sketchbook filled with illustrations of many of the cases he had either operated on or observed and later worked these sketches into 15 oil paintings, which now hang on the walls in the pathology museum at the Surgeons' Hall.
The paintings shown here illustrate various gunshot wounds and provide a rare insight into the early 19th century world, both of warfare and surgery. In a world before X-rays, as a precise and objective record of specific cases, the paintings were intended to help surgeons visualise what might be happening inside their patients' bodies.
Gunshot wounds were a passion of Bell's. On hearing of the Battle of Waterloo he wrote to his brother (and fellow surgeon) in 1815: “Johnnie! How can we let this pass? Here is such an occasion of seeing gun-shot wounds come to our very door. Let us go!”
Paintbrush, printed cardboard, adhesives and nylon, London, c1996. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Washing-up bottle, high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, London c1999.
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Singer Office chair, cast iron leg, steel frame, laminated wooden seat and back, London, c1935. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Portable radio receiver and cassette player/recorder (col. boombox), various materials and electronics, made by Akai, Japan c1984 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek
Edinburgh resident Robert Penman first noticed a hard swelling in his jaw in his early teens. Despite multiple operations to remove the growth it continued to expand, and by the time Penman was twenty-four it filled his entire mouth, distorting it to 15 inches in circumference.
Penman's doctors solicited the help of Dr. James Syme, who had reputation for performing bold operations. In his preliminary notes Syme recorded that 'the throat of the patient was almost obliterated, there being only about two inches of it above the sternum…When the tumour was viewed in profile it extended eight inches from the front of the neck.'
Syme excised the tumour in 1828. The operation, which Penman endured without anaesthetic, lasted just under half an hour. It was said of Syme that he 'never unnecessarily wasted a word, a drop of ink or blood' and indeed Penman lost only eight ounces of blood during the procedure. The extracted tumour weighed four and a half pounds.
When Syme encountered Penman seventeen years later he noted 'how little the operation had injured either his appearance or articulation.' As Penman had since grown a beard 'careful inspection, indeed, was requisite to enable an ordinary observer to detect anything peculiar.'
The tumour, and many other objects relating to the case of Robert Penman, were donated to the museum by Lord Lister in 1905.
For a more detailed study of Robert Penman, see "The Penman Case: A Re-Evalution" by M.H. Kaufman and M.T. Royds and James Syme's Contributions to the Pathology and Practice of Surgery.
Adjustable office chair, tubular steel, compressed laminate and rubber, London c1940's
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Deciduous teeth, human. Pulp, dentin, cementum, enamel. London c1996 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek
Painted flask, tin and solder with cork stopper, hand painted, possibly Afghanistan c1988 #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Hand grenade shaped drinks container, unknown polymer, unknown c1994 #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Mobile phone: Nokia 7100, multiple materials and softwares. London c1999 #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Wooden screw thread, possibly part of a vise or clamp, southern Poland c1992.
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Fragment of a sculpture, Dogon peoples, central Mali, upcycled cardboard, London c1986.
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Dried Hydrangea and Craspedia Compositae in a bamboo tube, London c2014.
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Semi-circular bowl - with remains of legs (?) - stacked upcycled cardboard London c1988 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek
Sandals, reused rubber motorcycle tyres and nails, Massi people, southern Kenya. c 2008. #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek
Souvenir lamp of The Monument to the Conquerors of Space (1964) Moscow, clear cast resin, steel, marble, unknown synthetic and electrics, Kraków, Poland c1996. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Vintage Spanish glassware, possibly from the 1970s, Aranjuez, Spain #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Guitar, Found cardboard box, wood, string, hot glue and acrylic paint, London c1997
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Buoy, cast aluminium with lighthouse motif, Swansea, Wales c1982. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Specialist bicycle repair box or bone spanner, aluminium-bronze alloy, Cwmaman, Wales c1968 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek
Mudha stool, split bamboo and recycled plastic from Rajasthan, India. London c2014. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Stippling brush, wood, steel, paint, varnish and horse-hair bristles, Warsaw, Poland c1996. #ObjectOfTheWeek #FromTheCollection
Bull's Head 1942, Pablo Picasso.
Brick Lane bought leather bicycle seat and chromed steel handelbar, London, c2009
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I've made iterations of other Picasso sculptures including Still Life 1914 as part of an exhibition entitled Sculptures at the newly-established Cabinet Gallery, in London 1992.
I also wrote a speculative text about the fabrication of Picasso's version of Still Life 1914.