{"product_id":"lemon","title":"Lemon","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLemon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Burns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1996\u003cbr\u003eBronze, polychrome patina\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e21.6 × 8.9 × 11.4 cm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCast and patinated by Ken Cook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e grew from two quite different sources: the abundance of the Western Australian gardens of my childhood and my longstanding interest in Dutch still life painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eGrowing up in Perth, the lemon tree was an ordinary part of suburban life. It seemed that every backyard had two things: a lemon tree and a Hills Hoist. The lemons I remembered were large, heavy fruit with a particularly thick white pith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWhen I began making \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e in England, I couldn’t find one like those childhood lemons. I searched everywhere, even going to Harrods Food Hall looking for an unusually large specimen. Eventually I asked my grandmother in Perth to send me a lemon from the tree in her garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIt was the thick pith I was looking for. Cutting the fruit open exposed this substantial white layer between the yellow skin and the flesh, and I made that internal structure visible in the sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe lemon also belongs to the language of Dutch still life painting that informed much of my sculpture during this period. In those paintings fruit is rarely simply food. Peeled and cut lemons appear among silver, glass, oysters and other objects of abundance, their curling skins and exposed flesh becoming part of the theatre of the still life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e subsequently became one of the individual sculptural components of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDinner with Trimalchio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e. As with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, I was interested in Auguste Rodin’s practice of reusing sculptural elements, allowing a form to exist independently and also to become part of a larger composition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eColour was equally important. I wanted the lemon to be unmistakably yellow, although achieving such colours in bronze was technically demanding. As I recalled in \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Cook: Out of the Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, when I told Ken that I wanted the lemon to be really yellow, despite never having seen him produce a yellow patina, his response was characteristically practical: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“No matter… we’ll sort something out.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe resulting sculpture deliberately plays against expectations of bronze. A material associated with dark, monochromatic monuments becomes yellow fruit, green leaves and brilliant white pith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhibition history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e1996\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecent Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eElysium Verto: Paradise is Changing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, California, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEdition 4\/6 exhibited. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Cook: Out of the Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePangolin London, London, UK\u003cbr\u003eEdition 6\/6 exhibited. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDinner with Trimalchio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, 1994\u003cbr\u003eBronze\u003cbr\u003e67 × 81 × 86 cm\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 6 intended; one complete example cast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e is one of the independently conceived and cast components used within the larger still life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReferences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eJohn McDonald, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephanie Burns: Recent Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1996.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Cook: Out of the Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, Pangolin London, London, 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Fuller Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41315604824136,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/9312\/9577\/files\/IMG_6567.jpg?v=1786967008","url":"https:\/\/stephaniefullergallery.com\/products\/lemon","provider":"Stephanie Fuller Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}