Caucus Race Cup and Saucer

Details

Artist

Stephen Bowers

Title

Caucus Race Cup and Saucer

Year

2010

Medium

earthenware, underglaze colour, clear earthenware glaze

Size

20 x 39 cm

Stock Number

201117

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Exhibited

Stephen Bowers: Larks Tongues in Aspic, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 27 November - 18 December 2010 The Elements Within Sculpture, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 4 June -16 July 2011

Further Information

Like the preceding piece, this work plays with scale and deals with the decorative potential of classic blue and white teacups and saucers. It also has a subtext of water scarcity. Taking its title from the section in Alice In Wonderland where Alice and the animals undertake a 'caucus race' to dry themselves after swimming in the pool of tears. Along with the Dodo, another familiar image in Bower's work, the form of the kangaroo taken from the prototypical 1700's painting by William Stubbs, also appears.