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Locket and Gold Bow by Bill Woodrow

Locket and Gold Bow by Bill Woodrow
Accession Code: wu0801
Title: Locket and Gold Bow
Date completed: 2001
Medium: Sculpture
Height (mm): 685
Location Name: Store
Location Description:

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.