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Blue Boat Black (1997) (ID: 1575) by Simon Starling

  • Artwork title Blue Boat Black (1997)
  • Artwork description 2 silver bream, 2 red mullet, 1 saddle bream, 1 European sea bream and three rockfish, caught from a replica of a Marseilles Barque, built from the wood from a museum display case from the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, and subsequently cooked over charcoal made from the wood of the boat (Installation view at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, 1999)
  • Date produced 1997
  • Work Type Installation
  • Medium Charcoal, posters, photographs, tools, fishing tackle, cool box, table top, aluminium trestles, life jacket, clothing
  • Artwork dimensions Dimensions variable
  • Historical classification 1990s
  • Artist byline © Simon Starling. All Rights Reserved, DACS Images
  • Photographer credit Simon Starling
  • Additional credit Image courtesy The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Keywords interior, installation, material, Conceptual, metaphorical, object, scale

available to licence by Simon Starling