Dimensions: unconfirmed: 260 x 210 mm
Copyright: © Elizabeth Wright | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Elizabeth Wright's Snowball, held in the Tate Collection. It’s simply a circle drawn on a white background. What's compelling about such a sparse image? Curator: Consider the snowball itself. A fleeting, impermanent form. The circle, a universal symbol of wholeness, is here merely a fragile outline. Do you see the tension between the eternal and the ephemeral? Editor: So, it's about the contrast between what the circle represents and the fleeting nature of the snowball? Curator: Exactly. The image invites us to reflect on our own fleeting existence, and the memories we build that are just as delicate as a snowball. Editor: I never thought about a simple circle carrying so much symbolic weight. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure, every form carries memory.
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Snowball is one of twenty works produced by contemporary artists for the Cubitt Print Box in 2000. Cubitt is an artist-run gallery and studio complex in north London. In 2001 the complex moved from King’s Cross to Islington and the prints were commissioned as part of a drive to raise funds to help finance the move, and to support future exhibitions and events at the new gallery space. All the artists who contributed to the project had previously taken part in Cubitt’s programme. The portfolio was produced in an edition of 100 with twenty artists’ proofs; Tate’s copy is number sixty-six in the series.
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