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The Breeze

© Graham Crowley, courtesy of Beaux Arts. Image credit: Dorset County Hospital

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This wall-mounted sculpture in wood and metal is loosely based on the view from Hengistbury Head looking towards Mudeford (Christchurch). It is one of 20 artworks by contemporary artists commissioned for the public spaces of Dorset County Hospital as part of the ‘Bringing the Outside In’ project. The image is of curtains blowing in the wind, grasses, telephone wires, clouds and general contours of the landscape. The piece is divided into inside and outside but the space is confused and flattened so that the artist is literally ‘bringing the outside in’. This creates an illusion in a similar way to a painting and Crowley uses painterly techniques as in the depiction of the grasses and their shadows. The mixture of wood for the landscape, reflective metal to suggest the open windows and painted metal creates a richness and complexity of surfaces which, like a puzzle, reinvents the view for us.

Dorset County Hospital

Dorchester

Title

The Breeze

Date

1997–1998

Medium

acrylic & mixed media on wood & metal relief

Measurements

H 160 x W 426 cm

Accession number

PCF39

Acquisition method

commissioned with the assistance of the Arts Council Lottery, 1997–1998

Work type

Painting

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Dorset County Hospital

Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2JY England

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