{"id":10375,"date":"2026-05-29T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10375"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:35:10","slug":"royal-academy-of-arts-summer-exhibition-2026-interlinked-mints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/royal-academy-of-arts-summer-exhibition-2026-interlinked-mints\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2026: Interlinked Mints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interlinked Mints\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1196597992?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interlinked Mints<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polo mints, wood, acrylic.  2026. 17 x 3.5 x 6cm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My work on show in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A sculpture composed of a sequence of Polo mints on a wooden base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polo mints are arranged in pairs, with the two mints in each pair interlocked, with each mint passing through the hole in the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mints are real Polo mints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polo mints are very sculptural in their own right, especially with the excellent typography of the word Polo in relief on them. The mints were originally produced in 1948 by Rowntree in the UK and were based on the design of the US confectionary Life Savers (which Rowntree previously produced in the UK under license).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interlinked Mints Polo mints, wood, acrylic. 2026. 17 x 3.5 x 6cm My work on show in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026. A sculpture composed of a sequence of Polo mints on a wooden base. The Polo mints are arranged in pairs, with the two mints in each pair interlocked, with each mint passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10388,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions\/10388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}