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Image: David Attwood, An Oak Tree, 2018. Waterford crystal hiball glass, glass self, water. 20 x 62 x 12 cm. Image courtsay of artist

Gallery 2

David Attwood

Friday 11 February - Sunday 27 February 2022

For his exhibition Oak Trees at M16 Artspace, David Attwood has commissioned a local glassblower to produce a drinking glass. The glass is a hand-blown replica of the drinking glass in Michael Craig-Martin’s artwork An Oak Tree, purchased in 1978 by the National Gallery of Australia. Considered a seminal work of Conceptual Art, Craig-Martin’s An Oak Tree is simply a glass of water and a short printed text, wherein the artists proclaims to have transformed the glass of water in to an oak tree. Alongside the hand-blown replica of An Oak Tree, Attwood presents a series of still-life drawings of the artwork made by members of the Artists Society of Canberra. The drawings are displayed one at a time over the duration of the exhibition period.