Dog Rose
- Artist:
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Mixed media
- Production Date: 2012
- Description: Passionate in her desire to forge relationships between images and poetry, in particular, Brigid Collins creates paintings and assemblages in two and three dimensions, often in collaboration with writers, poets and other artists or makers.
This work came about after the poet Kathleen Jamie asked Brigid if she would draw Kathleen's recent mastectomy scar. Kathleen Jamie explains that, following her operation, she was examining her scar in the mirror: 'As I turned this way and that, I thought it looked like the low shores of an island, seen from afar. Or a river, seen from above. A bird‘s-eye view of a river. Or a map. Then, I fancied it looked like the stem of a rose. With that, a line of Burns arrived in my head. ‘You seize the flo‘er, the bloom is shed‘.' Read more about this collaboration here: https://granta.com/frissure/
This work is one of those included in 'Frissure: Prose Poems and Artworks' (Polygon, 2013 ) by Kathleen Jamie and Brigid Collins. - Dimensions: 95cm H x 40 cm W
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Related Material: AC/AF/C/13
- Accession Number: 2014.2
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
