Rebecca WarrenVersailles 2006

Versailles is a two-part sculpture comprising an organic form modelled in clay standing on a tall MDF plinth. The plinth is painted pale pink. As is typical to Warren’s sculptures, the form is made of NewClay, a self-hardening clay which does not need to be fired. Warren moulded it by hand over a steel and polystyrene armature and then coloured it roughly using acrylic paints. Framed by a row of four large curls of clay resembling flowers, a rounded rosy pink breast juts from the centre of the form, its oversized, brilliantly coloured nipple pointing forwards like a nose and providing the focal point of the sculpture. The flowers are painted black, blue and yellow… (read more)