THE ROCK & THE JUDGE

Plaster and pigment, ral 5001 specified for an adjacent wall, commissioned drawings by police officers, 2006

The Rock & The Judge (UK), installation view, 'Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform', Praxes, Berlin, 2015 (solo)

A policeman is asked to make a drawing of a judge – who is known to him – passing sentence. The drawing is framed, and hung looking down on a white sealed plaster sculpture of a rock, made by the artist. In response to the qualities of the drawing, the sculpture is given an animistic value.

Reviews
'The Impossible Prison', Jonathan Griffin, frieze 177, September 2008
Critics Pick, The Rock & The Judge, Diana Baldon, artforum.com, April 2005

Exhibitions
The Rock & The Judge, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, 2005 (solo); British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, 2005; Google Earth, Academie Galerie, Utrecht, 2006; Zes, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2007 Zes, Harris Lieberman, New York, 2007; The Freedom of Negative Expression, Chapter, Cardiff, 2007 (solo); The Impossible Prison, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham (Nottingham Contemporary offsite exhibition), 2008; In this Colony, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, 2005; Rock, Paper, Scissors, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, 2007; The Freedom of Negative Expression, Chapter, Cardiff, 2007 (solo); Chris Evans, store, London, 2005 (solo)