Bluebird
Bluebird
Bluebird
Bluebird
Bluebird
Bluebird

© the artist. Image credit: Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

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Danays’ work is inspired by gesture and antiquities, notably broken ones. Danays’ fragments of sacred and secular antiquities are intermingled with marvels from nature and her own stone sculptures to create a unique fusion of energies and symbols. Alabaster is her favoured medium, its history and fragility adding to the complex layers of metaphor and meaning embedded in her work. Danays’ sculptures reduce complex shapes to their simplest forms, and are capable of expressing and evoking great emotion.

In ‘Bluebird’ we see a submissive pose; the gesture is of being laid down, powerless and voiceless. The isolated limbs rise above the personal and become universal emblems. The unclothed body represents the timeless, and lacks any specific historical association.

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Nottingham

Title

Bluebird

Date

2012

Medium

alabaster

Accession number

NCMG 2017-170

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 2017

Work type

Sculpture

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