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GRANDAD AS THE PUPPET MASTER
Stipple engraving by James Denison-Pender on two sheets of
optical crystal, each engraved on both sides, mounted in an
aluminium frame on a stainless steel base.
Height 25cm, width 16.5cm, depth 5cm.
This piece was engraved for the Trove exhibition at the Perth
Museum & Art Gallery. The museum selected several glass
artists from The Scottish Glass Society to pick an object
form the museum's reserve collection and base a piece of
glass art on it. The piece would then be exhibited alongside
the object from the collection. The subject for this engraving
was suggested by a print, ‘The Puppet Master’ by Robert
Sargent Austen, dating from the 1930’s. The old man in the
print is reputed to be a self-portrait. He sits with his puppets
but has no audience. The engraver has responded by making
the puppet master into his own self portrait and creating an
audience with his seven grandchildren and six step
grandchildren.
Stipple engraving by James Denison-Pender on two sheets of
optical crystal, each engraved on both sides, mounted in an
aluminium frame on a stainless steel base.
Height 25cm, width 16.5cm, depth 5cm.
This piece was engraved for the Trove exhibition at the Perth
Museum & Art Gallery. The museum selected several glass
artists from The Scottish Glass Society to pick an object
form the museum's reserve collection and base a piece of
glass art on it. The piece would then be exhibited alongside
the object from the collection. The subject for this engraving
was suggested by a print, ‘The Puppet Master’ by Robert
Sargent Austen, dating from the 1930’s. The old man in the
print is reputed to be a self-portrait. He sits with his puppets
but has no audience. The engraver has responded by making
the puppet master into his own self portrait and creating an
audience with his seven grandchildren and six step
grandchildren.
