Overcoat (2000)

Heather Belcher

hand-made felt wool, wooden baton support

The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

Classification:

Craft

Materials:

Wool

Physical Object Description:

Brown felt coat with darker coloured wooden baton support. Handmade felt wool, 2000

Dimensions:

175 x 100 x 5 cm

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, with the aid of a grant from the Crafts Council, 2000

Scheme:

Historic Craft Purchase by Purchaser (1949-2010)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Sotheby's by Janice Blackburn for the Contemporary Art Society, with the aid of a grant from the Crafts Council, 11 February 1999; presented to the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2000

Relationship:

Janice Blackburn Sotheby's, New York, London, Amsterdam The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

Subject:

Cloth

Heather Belcher has taken inspiration from a passage in Louis de Berniéres' WW2 novel 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' (1994) when the hero complains:

'I hate my entire uniform. The threads rotted and it fell apart. The cloth hardened like cardboard, and stiffened into adamantine inflexibility. It garnered the cold like a refrigerator and forced it into my flesh. It grew hardier and more abrasive by the day. I shot! A goat and clothed myself in its unhired pelt.'

This unwearable felt coat stands partly for a past that cannot be recaptured.

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