Rattle #4

Artist/Creator: Carole Itter (Artist)
Date: c. 1983
ID #: BG3548

Physical Description

Medium: wood, metal
Support: –
Dimensions: 218 cm 57 cm 57 cm (Object)
Object Description: Carole Itter’s assemblages, built from second-hand and discarded objects, speak to concerns around domestic life, resources and capitalism's impact on local and global ecologies. Itter refers to her scavenged hanging collages as “rattles” after her late partner, artist and jazz musician Al Neil, shook one of the wooden sculptures to find out what it would sound like. Along with the rattles, her assemblage works have assumed many forms, including boxes, floor spills and floats, and have been taken apart, re-painted and assembled anew. Rattle #4 (1983) was part of a series of sixteen assemblages installed in 1984 at Western Front.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of Bill Turnbull, 2009
Related Exhibitions: Beginning with the Seventies: Radial Change
Special Collection: Archives and Acquisitions
Carole Itter: Only when I'm hauling water do I wonder if I'm getting any stronger

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