CONCRETE VEGETABLES

© The Artist

CONCRETE VEGETABLES 1998

Bob and Roberta Smith (1958 – )

Details

Dimension
76 X 19 X 7 CM
Media
CONCRETE AND GLOSS PAINT
Accession number
P7446

Summary

A few concrete vegetables were made originally by my mother and grandmother. You might say their manufacture is a kind of family tradition. I make them these days as a fine art multiple object. I like the fact that they have made the transition from folk art eccentricity to fine art multiple. Each vegetable is unique, decorated in a particular way by the artist. It is the activity of making them rather than the object that fascinates me. My wife and I are presently teaching our son and daughter to make concrete vegetable sculpture.

Multiplication, The British Council 2001