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Model, Howie the Rookie

This is a Model. It is dated 1999. Its medium is graphite and paint on laser-cut mdf and led, recreated for exhibition; staged 1999, bush theatre, london, uk. It is a part of the department.

“My first stage designs were experiments in framing light. The Bush Theatre was a room above a West London pub with an audience of 75 people. Mark O’Rowe’s play Howie the Rookie is a pair of potent, visceral monologues set in the housing estates of Tallaght on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. I perforated a concrete plane with a line of light. This line conveyed both a burning horizon and a road marking on a highway.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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