'Just a spoonful' Sarah Strachan

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By Signature Art Prize 2022
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

150 × 300 × 200 cm

Materials:

gilded ceramics, india ink on canford card, bucket of compost, soil sounds

Primary Medium:

Sculpture

Extra Large
2021
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Just a spoonful (2021) is a ground-level installation consisting of cumulative line drawings, gilded ceramics, sounds of soil and a bucket full of compost. Lamenting soil degradation, this work aims to celebrate the value of soil and question the sustainability of sugar beet farming in the UK. Soil accumulates slowly like the line drawings in this installation, but it's being lost at an alarming rate. The ceramics, moulded from sugar beet, represent the ghostly but enduring impact of industrial agriculture. Sound is also an indicator; healthy soil is noisy - as just a spoonful contains more organisms than there are people on the planet - but intensively managed soil is relatively quiet. Whilst we can’t all tackle the issues of industrial agriculture; we can all compost our organic waste. Without soil we won't have food to eat or freshwater to drink.

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