Coordinate: The Glenmorangie Commission (Metalwork)
- Submitting institution
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 52.32
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- National Museum of Scotland
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2020
- URL
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https://issuu.com/arts_londonmet/docs/simone_ten_hompel_-_coordinate
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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2 - The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Coordinate is an artefact that resulted from a Glenmorangie Commission - a unique collaboration between the maker and curators in archaeology at the National Museum of Scotland, supported by the Glenmorangie Company. Through its form and production, the work aims to explore and articulate aspects of Scotland’s story through the tectonic qualities and language of metal. The project revealed how new ideas in metalworking in the Early Mediaeval and Viking period in Scotland can be re-presented and embodied in the artefact and its production processes.
The project was designed to question who benefits from the ideas and themes underlying a museum artefact, constructed by interpreting conversations between a wide range of people about Scotland’s history, and how long-established traditions of making can be recovered and reinvented.
The wider scope of the commission included workshop activities and field-studies, culminating in the production of a metalwork artefact. This process combined collaboration with different participants, site visits, and the presentation of designs followed by a masterclass.
In October 2019 a lecture was delivered at the National Museum of Scotland, and in March 2020 ‘The Museums and Contemporary Craft Symposium’ planned to reveal the completed artefact at the museum. Research findings were shared with archaeologists, conservators and curators, which were progressively documented in a blog. This collaborative dimension to the project, accessible on YouTube and the museum website, also served to deepen future curatorial possibilities of the institution as a whole – in relation to scholars, the public-facing museum and school groups.
The contribution to knowledge is embedded in the materiality of the artefact - where silver items are brought into being in a manner that draws upon the cultural resources and context of the museum - and how different tools have been used in its production.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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