Aeroplane Nest
2010
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2010
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Aeroplane Nest is a 2010 by Elizabeth Barton, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a tangled nest with a small airplane trapped inside. The lines are scratchy and dark, like pencil or ink on paper. The nest looks messy, with twigs and feathers sticking out in all directions. The airplane is simple—just two wings and a tail, but it stands out against the nest’s chaos. The artist used only black and white, making the shapes pop against the clean background. Check out Barton, Elizabeth for more of her work.
Etching on zinc titled *Aeroplane Nest* depicts a passenger jet positioned within a nest constructed from ticker tape. The work is signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Elizabeth Barton makes prints you can hold in your hands. A 2010 piece called Aeroplane Nest shows birds circling above a criss-cross of runways, the airport runway lines doubling as nests. It’s a quiet joke on how we…
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