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- 2020-2021 (Creation)
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‘Useless Machines’ is a series of moving interlocking laser cut wooden panels, wrapped in waste-fabrics and hand-stitched. They move and look like idiosyncratic machines, but are entirely functionless, as foils to the useful machines lost to landfills.
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Kialy Tihngang was born in Cardiff in 1994. She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Glasgow, working in textiles, sculpture, costume, animation and moving image inform her practice, which combines and contrasts hand and digital techniques. She received the Newbery Prize at The Glasgow School of Art in 2021.
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Purchased from Kialy Tihngang, Dec 2021.
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Wood, waste fabrics, waste plastics, waste leather, thread, paint.
Dimensions: 470 x 420 x 30 mm
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Catalogued by Michelle Kaye, Collections Lead, Sep 2024.
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- English
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NMC_1998.jpg
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