Prestige
Prestige steel baking tray on front of glazed picture frame 46x60cm 2008
A work created from a mundane everyday object – a kitchen baking tray – mounted on the exterior of a glazed picture frame.
One of the motivations behind the work was to show the beauty and rich visual interest intrinsic in mundane objects from mundane environments.
Below is a detail of the intricate patterns and patina on the steel surface of the baking tray. The word ‘Prestige’ it the centre is an important feature.
I’ve been interested in the concept of finding beauty in the mundane ever since I admired the colours in the film of detergent on a wire mess kitchen utensil (maybe a cake stand) as it caught the sun. That was in my parents’ kitchen about sixty years ago.