Accession Code: wu0803 Title: Spirit of the Age Date completed: 2001 Medium: Painting Material: Acrylic Height (mm): 1650 Width (mm): 3350 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: n/a Location Name: Scarman House Location Description: Stairwell Location Floor: 1

Daniel Sturgis' Spirit of the Age explores a more deadpan approach to building up overlapping forms. Its shaped format accentuates the qualities of a decorative border or detail, which on closer inspection gives way to a quirky, more individual anthropomorphism of funky shapes which form the broader areas. Sturgis plays with this idea of taste, retro-chic and the sheer exuberance and intensity of colour to produce highly charged chromatic and tightly designed abstractions.