Victoria apartments..

I was just about to post the fourth in the Grennan and Sperandio series at Towneley Hall, and I realise that I hadn't put the third up, very shoddy of me. so this is the third piece...

‘Victoria Apartments’
A nineteenth century classical bronze of a dancer upholstered with a crimson polyester satin quilt.
‘Victoria Apartments’ creates an image of a woman struggling to control a quilt, which comically undermines the gravitas of the neo-classical bronze dryad and re-affirms the bronze’s original function as a domestic object rather than a scholarly one. The relationship between the contemporary quilt and the nineteenth century statue reflects the relationship between old and new ideas of domestic luxury particular to post-industrial towns and cities, which are underwritten by regeneration and changes of use. Victoria Apartments is the new name of an old Mill in Padiham, where contemporary luxury apartments now recycle the physical shell of nineteenth century industry.