102750 | GREAT BRITAIN. "And Then She Made The Lasses, O" cast bronze Medal.

102750  |  GREAT BRITAIN. "And Then She Made The Lasses, O" cast bronze Medal. Issued 1996 (70mm x 69mm x 82mm, 476.8 g, 12h). By Hazel White for the British Art Medal Society, and cast by Jack Spencer with Goldsmiths Ltd.

 

Female midsection, focused upon the waist and upper things; reading upward to left in three lines and in script, "Her prentice hand she / tried on man, And then / she made the lasses, O." // Handprint. Edge: Plain, and with enough of a base that the piece can stand upright.

 

Attwood p. 42 & 122; The Medal 29, 143 (for which one side served as the front cover art). Essentially As Made. Light brown-bronze surfaces. From an output of just 52 pieces.

 

A rather intriguing piece with a clearly hand-sculpted nature, this specimen was designed by Hazel White, then a lecturer in metalwork and jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University. About the artist and her piece, the writeup in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Medal mentions that White was "...born in Edinburgh in 1965, she studied at Edinburgh University (1982-5), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (1989-93), and the Royal College of Art (1993-5). As well as being a finalist in the RCA's Platinum Award competition in 1993 and 1994, she won a prize in the Royal Mint's student medal competition also in 1994. Her work has been seen in exhibitions in Britain, Spain and Belgium, and her Untitled medal is included in the touring exhibition, Obverse Reverse. She joined Sheffield Hallam University as a full-time lecturer earlier this year. Her BAMS medal has a handprint on one side, and a female form and text on the other. The text is from Robert Burns' poem 'Green grow the rushes, O'. The full verse is: Auld Nature swears the lovely dears, Her noblest work she classes, O; Her prentice hand she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O."

 

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