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Details
- Date
- circa 1972
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- painted wood (two figures), silk, paper wrapped wire (bouquet)
- Dimensions
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display dimensions variable
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a - Male figure, 172 x 48 x 30 cm, irreg.
b - Female figure, 191 x 49 cm, irreg.
c - Bouquet, 47 x 12 cm, irreg.
- Credit
- Gift of Patrick White 1977
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 394.1977.a-c
- Copyright
- © Estate of Bob Jenyns
- Artist information
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Bob Jenyns
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About
While appearing naïve in construction, Bob Jenyns’ carved and polychromed figures – echoing the rigid plastic bodies of the bride-and-groom atop a frosted wedding cake – are both original and sophisticated in conception.
With its tongue-in-cheek, pop-inspired aesthetic, 'The wedding' embraces Jenyns’ long-held interest in the ‘hands on’ quality of folk and outsider art, and is likewise connected to his joy of creating toys from salvaged materials as a child. With the artist’s interest in creating works that inflate instances of the everyday, Jenyn’s bridal couple seem frozen for an awkward photograph.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, 138.
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