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Primate
Artist
Daphne Wright
(born 1963)
Date2009
MediumMarble dust, onyx, resin, paint, and silk embroidery
Dimensions14.5 × 76 × 46.5 cm
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCollection Hugh Lane Gallery.
Purchased, 2024.
© Daphne Wright.
Object number2227
DescriptionPrimate is one of a series of sculptures of animals by Daphne Wright that explores the complex relationship between humans and our environment, highlighting the extinction of animals and the current biodiversity crisis. Cast at a Primate Research Centre, Wright’s sculpture of a rhesus monkey displayed lying on its side is unsettling, yet affecting. The soft flesh of its face, hands and chest is made solid and covered in a fine layer of embroidered ‘hair’, recalling the living animal.On View
On view
Jack Coughlin
