Kate Stobbart Art

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Blowed (2010)

Interim MFA show, Newcastle University

Installation of a set of “lungs” made from discarded capri sun containers and old hosepipe.

An image of yellow hosepipe tubing draped round a white room. The tubing hangs down from the ceiling and is connected to two empty Capri Sun packets. These look like a set of lungs - and can inflate, if air is blown through the hose pipe.
All photos: Colin Davison – Installation view of “lungs” and inflation tubing
Close up of two empty Capri Sun packets, connected to yellow hosepipe tubing.
Close up of yellow hosepipe tubing draped on floor of room

Close up of inflatable “lungs” and tubing

Wide image of yellow hosepipe tubing draped around a room - with 2 Capri sun packets connected to the end of the tubing. The hosepipe tubing protrudes 12 inches through a wooden wall. If someone blows through the tubing - the Capri Sun packets are inflated like lungs.
Image of a person blowing through yellow hosepipe tubing and inflating a set of Capri Sun lungs in the room next door.
Demonstration of “lungs” being inflated from adjacent room
Image of two prints of black ink drawings of a hunched-over person blowing through tubing - that is attached to a figure.
Prints that accompanied the installation