56db Two Golds, Dail Behennah, pleated and plaited paper, 37.25” x 25.25” x 2.25”, 2019, $5,000
54db Intrusion, Dail Behennah,
white willow, scorched and waxed,
silver-plated pins, black-patinated pins., 8” x 22” x 22”, 2014, $6,800
dried willow,welding rods, 10” x 10” x 10”, 2014, $5,000
46db Rhombus, Dail Behennah,,
white willow, silver plated pins, 16" x 16" x 2.5", 2008, $4,000
Nine By Five, Dail Behennah
stainless steel ropes, 77" x 33", 2012, Call
Full image view on left, Detail
image view on right
49db Shadow Disk Dail Behennah
white willow, silver-plated pins, 14.75" x 14.75" x 3", 2007, $2,300
Full image view on left, Detail image view on right
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Crafts Council, London, England (Contemporary International Basketmaking and Out of this World, traveling exhibitions, permanent collection); Sotheby’s London, UK; Collect, London, UK; Ruthin Craft Centre, (Hands Across the Border, traveling exhibition, catalog); Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (Basketry: Making Human Nature); Kunstverein, Coburg, Germany (Drawing, Permanence and Place, traveling exhibition, catalog); Dalslands Konstmuseum, Upperud, Sweden (solo exhibition); Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Gallery, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan (Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers); Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (East Weaves West, traveling exhibition); Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery, UK (Labelled, commission and acquisition). Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin (permanent collection); Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey (Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers); Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK (permanent collection); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (permanent collection); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (permanent collection); Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK (permanent collection); Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, UK (permanent collection); Taunton & Somerset Hospital, UK (permanent collection); Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden (100 Beginnings, permanent collection); Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin Denbighshire, Wales; Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK (Fieldwork: New Work in Willow and Other Materials; solo exhibition).
32db FIVE STAINLESS STEEL ROPE BALLS
Dail Behennah, stainless steel ropes
4mm rope --16 cms. diameter; 3mm rope--11 cms. diameter; 1.5mm --8.5cms. diameter; .081mm--3 cms. diameter, 2001
Statement:
Some of my work has been influenced by grids, fences and scaffolding. I am particularly interested in the dramatic shadows cast by the basket and the way that the stack of grids changes from two to three dimensions as the viewer moves around the bowl.
Dail Behennah
