Isabella Blow (Isabella Delves Broughton)
The Head of Isabella Blow
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
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Now playing: Dead Can Dance - Song Of The Sibyl
6 comments:
This is amazing
So happy you saw it.
Next trip, let's go visit her together!
PT&E - Deal. Shame Edward and Apple can't come.
JWC - hope you listened to the song whilst gazing.
I love this. The one Tim and Sue did of themselves is amazing too xx
Christina - believe this is the only portrait they have done. Which must say a lot about their friendship.
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