Locket and Gold Bow by Bill Woodrow

Accession Code: wu0801 Title: Locket and Gold Bow Date completed: 2001 Medium: Sculpture Material: Mixed Media Height (mm): 685 Width (mm): 405 Depth (mm): 150 Inscription: n/a Location Name: Store Location Description: Location Floor:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Nancy Balfour bequest, 2000

In this work, Bill Woodrow has combined the old leather case of a camera or binoculars with a map. The work speaks of travel but its locket form also suggests the emotional pull of places in which we have lived, travelled or of which we have only dreamed.