With These Hands, installation commissioned for the exhibition - Dislocations: territories, landscapes and other spaces

Donald, M. and Millar, N. (2021) With These Hands, installation commissioned for the exhibition - Dislocations: territories, landscapes and other spaces. [Exhibitions]

Abstract

With These Hands is series of sculptural works which reframe industrial and global processes of extraction and extractivism as practices carried out at the scale of a single human, taking the hand as a unit of measurement and as a conduit between human and other-than-human matter. The sculptural works focus on four materials extracted in Scotland today or in the recent past: coal, sand, granite aggregate, and peat. The work was made by taking a cast of the inside of the cupped hands of an employee from an organisation responsible for the extraction of one of these resources. A positive of the cupped hands was then cast in resin-bound sand, granite aggregate, powdered peat, and powdered coal. A negative was cast in concrete. The work was commissioned by the Hunterian Art Gallery for Dislocations: territories, landscapes and other spaces, an exhibition of contemporary artists’ responses to landscape, autumn 2021.

• Item Type: Exhibitions
• Additional Information: Installation: Coal, concrete, granite aggregate, sand, steel, peat, digital print.
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Donald, Professor Minty
• Authors: Donald, M., and Millar, N.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies