The Drooping Column (1976)

Nicholas Pope

wood and rope sculpture (18 wooden blocks)

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Wood

Dimensions:

182.88 cm

Accession Number:

1260

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1979

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Garage Gallery Ltd by Anthony Diamond for the Contemporary Art Society, 1976; presented to Touchstones Rochdale, 1979

Relationship:

Anthony Diamond Garage, London Touchstones Rochdale

After Pope exhibited at the Venice Biennale, representing Britain, in 1980, he was awarded a Cultural Visitor grant to Zimbabwe and Tanzania. This experience affected his artistic practice. In a move towards softer, more malleable materials such as glass, porcelain, moulded aluminium and ceramics, Pope began to make abstract works that reference complex themes of belief, suicide and society.

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