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A Girl

Ron Mueck, 2006

National Galleries Scotland: Modern, Edinburgh
Hyper-realistic portrayal of a newborn baby on a giant scale, rendered in painstaking detail complete with umbilical cord. Sculptures by the artist originate from subjects he knows, chance encounters, or found images. Themes include the ages of man and people at key moments of life, often in a state of vulnerable nakedness, but using a distortion in scale to offer a new view of the human. The work uses model-making techniques from film and television.
Ron Mueck, A Girl, 2006, National Galleries of Scotland, Art Funded 2007
Subject to Tate ARTIST Rooms agreement. © The Artist, Courtesy Anthony d'Offay, London

Hyper-realistic portrayal of a newborn baby on a giant scale, rendered in painstaking detail complete with umbilical cord.

Sculptures by the artist originate from subjects he knows, chance encounters, or found images. Themes include the ages of man and people at key moments of life, often in a state of vulnerable nakedness, but using a distortion in scale to offer a new view of the human. The work uses model-making techniques from film and television.

Hyper-realistic portrayal of a newborn baby on a giant scale, rendered in painstaking detail complete with umbilical cord. Sculptures by the artist originate from subjects he knows, chance encounters, or found images. Themes include the ages of man and people at key moments of life, often in a state of vulnerable nakedness, but using a distortion in scale to offer a new view of the human. The work uses model-making techniques from film and television.
Ron Mueck, A Girl, 2006, National Galleries of Scotland, Art Funded 2007
Subject to Tate ARTIST Rooms agreement. © The Artist, Courtesy Anthony d'Offay, London

More information

Title of artwork, date

A Girl, 2006

Date supported

2007

Medium and material

Fibreglass, silicon, polyurethane foam, acrylic fibre, paint, mixed media

Dimensions

110.5 x 501 x 134.5 cm

Grant

50000

Total cost

400000

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