Friday, 11 March 2011

The right light


Isabella Blow (Isabella Delves Broughton)
The Head of Isabella Blow
by Tim Noble and Sue Webster
2002


The Head of Isabella Blow was donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 2009 by the artists and Blow's estate. The work (which must be spot-lit for the subject's silhouette to be visible) is comprised of taxidermic magpies, rooks, hooded crows, a rattlesnake, a raven, a robin, a carrion crow and a black rat.  Other materials also used include fake moss, wood, a lipstick tube and a Manolo Blahnik shoe heel.



  
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. - Lou Andreas-Salomé





Now playing: Dead Can Dance - Song Of The Sibyl
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6 comments:

  1. JWC12 March 2011 at 17:24

    This is amazing

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  2. Pamela Terry and Edward13 March 2011 at 01:48

    So happy you saw it.
    Next trip, let's go visit her together!

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  3. HOBAC14 March 2011 at 21:25

    PT&E - Deal. Shame Edward and Apple can't come.

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  4. HOBAC14 March 2011 at 22:01

    JWC - hope you listened to the song whilst gazing.

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  5. Christina @ Fashion's Most Wanted19 March 2011 at 02:31

    I love this. The one Tim and Sue did of themselves is amazing too xx

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  6. HOBAC19 March 2011 at 18:12

    Christina - believe this is the only portrait they have done. Which must say a lot about their friendship.

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