File:Shirley Tse Sink-Like-A-Submarine-2006.jpg

Sculpture by Shirley Tse, Sink Like a Submarine, Cast resin, found resin (factory rejected machine mounts for submarines), brass and carved jade, 81" x 36" x 20", 2006. The image illustrates a key mid-career stage in Shirley Tse's art when she turned to sculptural works using a wider range of materials (beyond plastics) and themes derived from history, literature and theory. In this particular work she drew connections between military weaponry, handicraft and the loom, the industrial revolution and information systems through an assemblage of forms (a human heart of carved jade, a small tower made of replicated recovered submarine parts) suggesting both machine, shelter or cage. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Shirley Tse. Copyright held by the artist.

Shirley Tse

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career phase in Shirley Tse's art in the 2000s: her sculptural work distinguished by its shifts to organic and other non-plastic materials, legible imagery and identifiable references derived from history, literature and theory, among other sources. This work drew unexpected connections between forms, raw materials and processes associated with, for example, handicraft, industrial and technological production, mapping, colonialism and identity. Formally, the work often collapses seemingly contradictory elements: micro and macro, organic and industrial, machined and handmade, literal and metaphorical. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work, which brought Tse ongoing recognition through traveling exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Tse's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Shirley Tse, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.