Ann Carrington

This sculpture is inspired by Wing Wo Wave City an industrial estate in Zhuijang Province, China which manufactures every kind of conceivable pearl adornment in colossal quantities. It is about pearls and the discrepancy between their perceived status of being timeless status symbols of refined taste and wealth (with exotic overtones) and the often very unromantic reality. Wing Wo Wave is a Chinese sailing Junk believing the dream, cruising on a tangled never ending sea of wedding tiaras, chokers and earrings.

This sculpture is inspired by  White Cloud Lake City – an  industrial estate in Zhuijang Province, China which manufacturers every kind of conceivable pearl adornment in colossal quantities. It is about pearls and the discrepancy between their perceived status of being timeless status symbols of refined taste and wealth (with exotic overtones) and the often very unromantic reality. White Cloud Lake is a Chinese sailing Junk believing the dream, cruising on a tangled never ending sea of wedding tiaras, chokers and earrings.

A frothy effervescent feathered showgirl headdress. An exercise in taking unwieldy, awkward  lumpen  industrial materials and transforming them into their polar opposite – something light, breezy, exotic, flouncy even – something so light you  might consider balancing on your head  to dance the can can in. Iron nails welded together to make frou frou pom poms, flouncy feathers from lumpen lead and flourishes of Rococco ribbon from drainage pipes. Inspired by native Indian headdresses and the court of Louis XV.