Name/TitlePrint: 165 Stars, Found in GWL Lending Library
About this objectDigital pigment fine art print on paper titled '165 Stars, Found in GWL Lending Library'
MakerMcMullan, Shauna
Maker RoleArtist
Date Made2012
Period2010s
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Inscription and MarksPrints editioned and signed by artist
TechniqueDigital pigment print
MeasurementsL: 280 x W: 560mm
Subject and Association Keywords21 Revolutions
Subject and Association DescriptionShauna McMullan combed GWL’s lending library collecting the marginalia and specifically the asterisks and starred items from hundreds of the donated volumes. The resulting work, a piece composed of the marks made by women in the books that have ended up as part of GWL’s collection placed on a blue ground resonates with recent work including Blue Spine and Something about a Word.
For Blue Spine, Shauna worked with over 500 women in GWL’s and her own networks to create a new composite temporary public artwork made from donated books by women with a blue spine and in the latter she worked with 100 people whose handwritten sentence about the colour blue was translated into an artwork that inscribed the 100 handwritten sentences into steel with the work installed in the Atrium of Eastgate, London Rd, Bridgeton, the neighbourhood of GWL’s future home.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePrint
Object numberGWL-2015-49-4
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved