Cushions

Gallery: Sculpture Trail, Pen Shop, City of Culture, Dublin (1990)

Dimensions: 2m x 1m x 20cms

Date: 1990

Materials: Satin, plaster, tassels, cord, religious reliquary

The appearance of opulance of these satin cushions conceals a hard, uncompromising interior of plaster, undermining their suggested function. Cushions was shown in an old fashioned pen shop in Dublin as part of a sculpture trail for the European City of Culture 1990.

All artwork by Miranda Housden