Sentences with phrase «white plaster heads»

The next gallery is dominated by astonishing taut, white plaster heads of women on a gargantuan scale.

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Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.

Originally displayed at the 1997 Munster Sculpture Project in Germany, The Dead Teach the Living (1997) is a group of computer - reconstructed heads cast in white plaster that show different racial stereotypes, which raises questions on how science has been used to dehumanize racial groups.