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From the Red Cabinet 2001

Artist: Whiteford, Kate, RSA · b. 1952

From the Red Cabinet 2001

Kate Whiteford has confirmed the inspiration for her diploma work in an e-mail of the 6th October 2008 "the reference is to the painter Giovanni Maria…

Kate Whiteford has confirmed the inspiration for her diploma work in an e-mail of the 6th October 2008 "the reference is to the painter Giovanni Maria Butteri ( 1540-1606). They were part of a series of works shown in an exhibition of my work at Agnew's Gallery, London in 2001 when I borrowed a small work on copper by Butteri to hang in an installation called the Red Cabinet. " and "They were displayed like jewels lining the walls of the inner galleries at Agnew's , displayed on deep red walls, on either side of the Butteri. The installation was called the Red Cabinet and these works should be titled From the Red Cabinet 2001. They were completed the year after the landscape drawing Shadow of a Necklace at Mount Stuart, Bute and the works also refers to Mount Stuart, to the jewel-like quality of house and old master collections." The Butteri painting that the works were inspired by and which they were hung with in the exhibition at Agnew's as part of an installation entitled 'The Red Cabinet (After Butteri)' was 'The birth of the Virgin' attributed to Butteri and the ten watercolours of which the diploma work formed part, were inspired by the chromatic qualities of the Butteri. Agnew's Label on reverse of frame suggests that this part of the diploma work was number five in the installation of ten watercolours at Agnew's.

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