Rachel WhitereadUntitled (Rooms) 2001

Untitled (Rooms) is a very large, free-standing sculpture made up of many parts bolted together. It is an internal cast of a group of three parallel rectangular rooms, a long narrow corridor and a small chamber which together made up an apartment within a larger building. The artist cast the inside of the rooms in sections, using a durable polymer reinforced plaster, known as Jesmonite, combined with layers of fibreglass matting, painted directly onto the surfaces of the walls and ceilings. Once released, individual casts were marked and holes were drilled in their edges in order to facilitate assembly as a whole. The casts are approximately 80mm thick… (read more)