Theo Ellison | Romantic Egg

£300.00

Romantic Egg

3D-printed egg engraved with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s signature

7 x 4 x 4cm

2023

£300 GBP

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Romantic Egg is a 3D-printed, painted sculpture engraved with the signature of 18th century pre-Romantic thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Referencing stone-age egg etchings as one of the earliest forms of communication, the sculpture explores the heavily-loaded, hazy and overlapping meanings of the term ‘romantic’.

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  • Theo Ellison uses video, photography, sound and text to tease out our vulnerability to Romanticised narratives, exploring how they shape our relationships with nature, technology and nostalgia. Within that framework, these narratives are both indulged and undercut to test the boundaries between pathos and humour, observation and voyeurism, and nature and artifice.

  • Exhibitions include In the Offing, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2023; Supersublime, Giant Gallery, Bournemouth, 2023; CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022; Artificial Things, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 2018; Known Unknowns, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2018; Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2017