Mark Handforth
‘Jade Garden’

Installation view, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2018
2018
Aluminium and polyurethane paint
243.8 x 152.4 x 55.9 cm
  • Installation view, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2018
  • Installation view, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2018
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Mark Handforth’s most recent exhibition at The Modern Institute in 2018 included five new sculptural forms within the Osborne Street gallery space, which developed from the idea of the garden, and in particular, Handforth’s own tropical garden in Miami. Central to the exhibition was two large sculptural pieces — ‘Jade Garden’ and ‘Asphalt Snake’ — which resemble oversized, crumpled and chopped pipes — anthropomorphic in form they search for a point of balance.