The abundance of wooden artworks in the collection served as an inspiration for this show, which examines the material from a green perspective. One of the selections is Eleanor Lakelin's Column Vessel I (from the Echoes of Amphora series), a composite of three hand-picked sections of timber from a newly felled chestnut tree in native England, one section is in an avenue of diseased trees that shaded Reading Goal, where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in 1885 and also the name of the prison in his poem.
Museum of Arts and Design in NYC celebrates the radicality of the handmade
Vatsala Sethi, STIRworld, March 10, 2023
