small Gold Medal
by Elizabeth Price (2001)
With this book, Elizabeth Price undertakes to fulfill this
clause for one last time, though not faithfully. Six artists collaborate
with Price in this task to proxy for the schoolboys by each contributing
an essay in response to the Will.
small Gold Medal includes Dave Beech's critique of cultural paternalism;
Nathan Coley's relocations of the titles of pastoral paintings from the
collection to suburbia; Richard Hogg's imagined reinstatement of the Bequest
in its original gallery space; Fergal Stapleton's hallucinatory reading
of the seventeenth century painting, Numerous Animals with Orpheus;
Simon Starling’s conflation of four narratives including those of
children’s book Flat Stanley and Julius Caesar along with
Matthew Thompson's conversations with two schoolboys who are his namesake.
Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, 128 pages, printed offset, 226x164mm,
ISBN 1 870699 47 5, price £12.95
Designed by Peter Willberg and Jody Abbott.