Folkestone Triennial 2021 - The Plot - "I Am Argonaut" by Jason Wilsher-Mills
In recent years Jason Wilsher-Mills has focused on using digital painting using technology such as iPad and Wacom tablets. For Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 the artist has drawn on his experience as a disabled artist to create a contemporary figurative sculpture (monumental in ambition but relatively intimate in size) – I Am Argonaut – to be placed ‘in conversation’ with the monumental statue of William Harvey, son of the Mayor of Folkestone, Royal Physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood. This dialogue has a very particular and personal significance for Jason, since his disabilities have been caused by a disease of the blood in his childhood. For him it has been an opportunity to pay his respects to a great scientist whose studies paved the way for some of the great advances of modern medicine.
Size: 6720px × 4480px
Location: Folkestone, Kent UK
Photo credit: © David Featherbe / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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