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Nuns on a Rocky Shore

© The Golsoncott Foundation. Photo credit: Somerset County Council

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The sculpture is divided into rectangular compartments by thick lines of aluminium. Within these compartments thinner aluminium lines are set in zigzag patterns. In the four central compartments a series of ovals of aluminium are filled with a mosaic of ceramic tiles.

Somerset Heritage Centre

Taunton

Title

Nuns on a Rocky Shore

Date

c.1970–1979

Medium

aluminium, board, ceramic tile, paint & wood

Measurements

H 96.2 x W 106.5 x D 4.5 cm

Accession number

TTNCM : 11/2012/4

Work type

Sculpture

Signature/marks description

stamp, reverse, top left: RACHEL RECKITT / STUDIO SALE / 19.3.96 / (1908–1995)

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Somerset Heritage Centre

Brunel Way, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset TA2 6SF England

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