Roma

Steel, PU elastomer

This artwork featured in Give Me Shelter (2009). A Meadow Arts commission, 2008.

A twenty metre, sinuous steel walkway stretches between the east wing of the mansion and the river Tern.  Keith Wilson’s work is a formal gesture and walk-through sculpture, which borrows the shape of a cattle run. The interior walls of the walkway are coated in a thick layer of high-density PU elastomer, finished in a luxuriant glossy blue, seemingly at odds with the harsh industrial materials used to construct the run. The sense of containment one experiences while walking through the sculpture is both comforting and disorientating. The notion of spatial control appeals to our need to find shelter in spatially controlled environments. The work is entitled Roma since its curves echo those of the River Tiber as it runs through the historic centre of Rome; perhaps a reference to the rise and rapid fall of a once great empire or to the ruinous Grand Tour of the 2nd Lord Berwick who commissioned the re-modelling of Attingham by Humphry Repton.

Image: Keith Wilson, Roma, steel and PU elastomer, installation view, Give Me Shelter, Attingham Park, 2009. Image courtesy Meadow Arts. 

 

About the artist

Keith Wilson

Keith Wilson exhibited in Roma, Worcester Woods Country Park, 2009.

Image: Keith Wilson, Roma. Steel, PU elastomer. Meadow Arts commission 2008.