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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Slade students make the biscuit

28 February 2006

When artist Song Dong created a model city made almost entirely of biscuits, 'The Guardian' asked six students from the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Slade School of Fine Art to try 'hobnobbing with the masters', and two of them chose to emulate ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Slade alumni.


Vicki Adams reinterpreted 'Embankment', the current installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, by Rachel Whiteread (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Slade School 1987).

Vicki told 'The Guardian': "I chose her because I think that biscuits work well in the modular sense that her boxes do. It was reasonably difficult to make; I have more respect for Rachel now. I didn't before, because I thought she just has a thing and runs with it. Pink wafers are the most malleable biscuit type of all the ones we've been given today. I don't know why I used the other kinds; I think now it was a bit of a mistake. It would look much better in sugar cubes. I'm quite happy with what I made, however; I think it's pretty faithful to the original. If I'd had more time I might have done some little biscuit people to go in it."

Jack Killick picked 'Angel of the North' by Antony Gormley (Slade School 1979).

Jack said: "I chose to make this because I felt the struts in the wings looked a bit like bourbons. I'm disappointed I didn't get it to stand up, but I think that might have been quite ambitious as I didn't have any glue. I think it's quite a good representation, though. I don't particularly like the original. I think it's quite ugly. And it's even uglier when it's made out of biscuits. I'm never very happy with anything I do, but I am happy with this - as happy as I could be, given the time. Biscuits are very difficult to use because they crumble and are generally uncooperative. I recently made something out of chocolate; I just put it into a cast, so it was easy. But you can't really compare it with this one. The chocolate sculpture had a concept behind it."


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