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24/7/2003

Lionheart

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

An installation by Turner Prize nominated artist Mike Nelson
25th July - 14th September

Lionheart, a major installation by Turner Prize nominated artist Mike Nelson has been purchased for The New Art Gallery Walsall collection by the Contemporary Art Society and will be on display at the Gallery from the 25th July to 14th September 2003.

Artist, Mike Nelson has used a wide range of found objects to create an intriguing, provocative and highly influential work. The English drifter's camp is created in the Gallery with skins, cages, traps, darts, beer cans, ashtrays, books and prayer mats making insinuations about the owner whose livelihood is based on the leftovers of different communities. It is as if the rubble of many countries, Asian, Turkish, Afro-Carribean and Irish, had washed up in the Gallery.

Mike says of his work 'My works are built to look old in the first place. I deliberately choose objects that are on the peripheries of acceptance, the sort of things which would not normally be valued, such as an old fan or an enamel light fitting. But, beyond this, I find it incredibly interesting how time changes the reading of something'.

As part of the exhibition Mike Nelson will be giving a free talk, about his work, on Saturday 9th August at 2pm.

For further information, or to book a place on the artist talk, please contact
reception on 01922 654400.

Image: Lionheart, Master of Reality (Featuring the Amnesiacs), copyright Mike Nelson, Jaki Irvine and Matt's Gallery.

The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square
Walsall

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