Green Wall Object, 2005

Michael Geertsen Born Denmark, 1966 Green Wall Object, 2005 Earthenware Purchased Galleri Noerby Copenhagen, 2005. Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Art Society’s Scottish Arts Council lottery funded National Collecting Scheme for Scotland. Museum number 2005-70 Geertsen enjoys the challenge of creating pattern and texture and has created a playful ceramic collage using familiar domestic shapes in an unfamiliar way. His trademark works are made up of vessel parts - bowls, beakers, cups, vases and cylinders - rearranged into energetic sculptural forms. Geertsen believes that his brightly coloured forms are: "... pictures of our social conventions, our way of life, and our rituals in a given epoch”. This work is on display in the Long Gallery.