© Rita Duffy Artist
Veil
Artist: Rita Duffy (born 1959)
Location: Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Date: 2002
Materials: mixed media
Dimensions: each door: 182.9 x 121.9cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £10,000)
Vendor: Rita Duffy
Review number: 5636 (2005)
Provenance:
The artist.
Description:
Veil is a constructed chamber of six heavy prison doors from a defunct women's prison in Armagh. Within the doors are small viewing holes through which prison staff would have observed offenders. The gallery visitor is invited to peer through these holes into a blood red interior, suspended with eighty glass tear droplets. The chamber is surrounded with salt representing shed tears.
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