The Multiple Store commissions contemporary artists every year to create work available in limited editions, making pieces affordable to a wider audience. Whilst most earlier editions have completely sold out, work is still available from some artists, a few of whom are shown below from a recent show at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.
Cornelia Parker used her own personal meteorite (I wouldn’t mind one of those) to “hit” symbolically named locations in the USA: Bethlehem, North Carolina and Bagdad in Louisiana. The two series are called “Meteorite Lands in the Middle of Nowhere”.
Jonathan Callan’s “Poem”, meanwhile, has silicone extruding through the laser-cut text of a poem.
Sculptor Alison Wilding’s “Rising”, made of cast acrylic and pigment, uses the shape of the first built atomic pile and looks like trapped smoke. The edition had to be produced by three different manufacturers as the technique was so difficult to control.
Corinne Felgate was inspired by traditional Wedgewood colours and shapes for her flocked anthropomorphic forms in “Baby’s got the Wedgewood Blues” , only one of which is shown here.
Work was also displayed in Jubilee Park and this piece, “The Hanging Debtor” by Simon Periton was aptly in the financial heartland of the UK.
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