{"id":138171,"date":"2025-10-22T11:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:32:17","slug":"turner-prize-artists-glass-coffin-stuns-outside-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138171\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Prize artist\u2019s glass coffin stuns outside Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The sculpture by the London-born artist is a key aspect of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jupiterartland.org\/whats-on\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jupiter Artland\u2019s<\/a> autumn and winter exhibition.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>  Turner Prize artist\u2019s glass coffin stuns outside Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A mysterious blue figure sleeps inside the coffin. (Image: Neil Hanna)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Evocative of the sleeping princess motif found in many fairytales, The Spell\u2019s dreamer \u201csleeps through the warning of present and imminent catastrophes, political and social disaster and environmental collapse \u2013 but also dreams of resistance and renewal.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The work is described as \u201cas a multi-faceted work inviting audiences to collectively dream of new horizons\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Shani, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, has displayed her work, which focuses on the recovery of \u2018feminised aesthetics\u2019, at galleries across the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/culture\/interviews\/article\/tai-shani-when-you-get-older-art-becomes-more-solitary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Speaking to The Observer<\/a> in August, Shani described where the inspiration behind The Spell came from.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;There&#8217;s this giant blue character \u2013 either under a spell or in some kind of somnambulist hallucination.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI was interested in dreaming, which has very strong connections with surrealist thinking and the way they thought about the unconscious in our daily lives. \ufeff\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cDreaming is limitless in its possibilities and is often the first step in transcending a political horizon.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The award-winning Jupiter Artland, contemporary sculpture park, located ten miles outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> on the grounds of a 19th century country manor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Consisting of 100 acres of meadow and woodland, as well as five indoor gallery spaces, the Artland currently houses 35 permanent sculptures from some of the world\u2019s top artists.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Works by Florence Peake and Georg Wilson will also feature at the Artlands this winter, which will be accompanied by a range of interactive activities.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets begin at \u00a37.50 for children, students and blue badge holders; and cost \u00a310.80 for pensioners and \u00a311.80 for adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sculpture by the London-born artist is a key aspect of Jupiter Artland\u2019s autumn and winter exhibition.\u00a0 Turner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-138171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}