Sea - Capital Collections

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20719

Title

Sea

Description

Wreckage and driftwood washed upon the sand provides the material and theme within this wall mounted sculpture. The three-dimensional elements are raised from the flat base. The artist has created swirling foam-like elements to the left of the sculpture. The outline of boat sails and flags seem to float amongst the sculpture.

Artist / maker

Mellis, Margaret

Size

90.0 x 90.0 x 9.0cm

Type

Relief sculpture

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1998/12

This sculpture is known as a relief sculpture.
These are works that invite the viewer to complete the picture and participate in a radical intervention that literally brings the elements of the pieces together and breathes life into them.
This method of using pieces of driftwood and wreckage washed-up on the coast of Scotland and Suffolk, provide the raw material and inspiration for the building of relief sculptures that can be seen as both abstract assemblages and composite landscapes.
Mellis moved from Edinburgh to London and married fellow artist and writer Adrian Stokes, after which they both moved to St. Ives, making contact with the artist community there. From this time Mellis began working in an abstract constructivist style.

By permission of the Estate of Margaret Mellis

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