About this artwork
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a comic novel by Laurence Sterne, originally published in nine volumes from 1759-67. Myles was initially drawn to the books due to the inclusion of several unusual marbled pages that Sterne had incorporated alongside entirely black pages and the usual text, testing the limits of traditional printing and typography. Myles’s work at this time had been exploring notions of endings and negation. From this interest evolved the idea to photograph the final full-stop of a first-edition copy of the novel. This was done using a Carl Zeiss photomicroscope, which reveals the full-stop as an abstract shape. The veins of ink leaking into the paper are reminiscent of a Rorschach ink blot.
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artist:Scott Myles (born 1975) Scottish
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title:Full Stop (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)
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date created:2006
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materials:Chromogenic print
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measurements:126.50 x 126.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2009
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accession number:GMA 5087
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Scott Myles
Scott Myles
Scott Myles was born in Dundee and studied at the city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, from 1993-97. His work is not limited to a singular medium, instead he moves between sculpture, drawing, photography, printing and performance art. He is interested in the business of making...