Alice Kettle
Loukanikos the Dog and the Cat's Cradle, 2015
Various threads on printed and painted canvas mix cloth.
With found objects and rope
Glass droplets on copper wire by Kirsteen Aubrey
Some installations include foreground 'Grass' barrier by Kirsteen Aubrey
varying height up to 80cm x 400cm
Glass droplets on copper wire mounted in railway sleepers.
With found objects and rope
Glass droplets on copper wire by Kirsteen Aubrey
Some installations include foreground 'Grass' barrier by Kirsteen Aubrey
varying height up to 80cm x 400cm
Glass droplets on copper wire mounted in railway sleepers.
207 x 425cm
Copyright The Artist
This piece depicts three girls playing cat’s cradle with a goldenthread. They stand behind the dog Loukanikos (an actual dog whobecame a symbol of the Greek anti-austerity protests in 2010),...
This piece depicts three girls playing cat’s cradle with a goldenthread. They stand behind the dog Loukanikos (an actual dog whobecame a symbol of the Greek anti-austerity protests in 2010), andwho barks at a group of riot police who are constrained by anothergolden thread. Amanda Ravetz, Research Professor ManchesterSchool of Art, writes, ‘Like the dog of Hades, Loukanikos mediatespolitics and magic, reproduction and territorialisation, dream anddisillusionment’. This work suggests a continual tension betweencynicism and change and between power and powerlessness.