The Announcement - Venice Series
2005
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2005
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Announcement - Venice Series is a 2005 by William Furlong, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing called *The Announcement - Venice Series* by William Furlong. It’s a single sheet of paper with marks and words that feel like quick notes. Furlong trained at two art schools in England in the 1960s. Later he built a career around sound, recording artists talking and turning their voices into artworks. His inscriptions read like overheard snippets from a busy street. Check out more by Furlong, William.
The work is a mixed-media collage by William Furlong from 2005, combining photographic fragments with drawn lines and handwritten inscriptions. Below, a trio of men appear posed in a street scene reminiscent of a holiday photograph, while above, partial figures and urban details are overlaid with colored and penciled marks. The inscriptions scattered across the surface suggest snippets of overheard speech. The drawing was acquired in 2007 as part of the series "40 Artists - 40 Drawings."
Read the full account in the museum source.
William Furlong never left his tiny London flat without a sketchbook stuffed in his coat pocket, even when the rain turned pages to pulp.
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