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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: Work of the Week 32 Dorothy Cross Simeon's Hut and Heartship
Description: An early work by Dorothy Cross, Simeon’s Hut (1986) anticipates the artist’s later tendency to incorporate found objects, such as boats, animal or shark skins, in her oeuvre. Comprising a mix of materials, the work can be read from the gravity of lead at its base, with gilded steps leading upwards towards a narrow, vertically placed shaft of timber surmounted by a modest hut.If we are to seek a narrative context for the work, its form coupled with its title can be taken to refer to Simeon Stylites (c.390-459). This fifth-century ascetic saint lived for 37...