Baby Art For Edinburgh

The BBC reports that a huge fibreglass sculpture of a baby which attracted unprecedented crowds while it was on exhibit in Edinburgh has been bought for the city. Ron Mueck's sculpture called A Girl has been secured for £400,000 for exhibiting in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. While it was on show in Edinburgh last year, 130,000 people went to view it over a nine week period. The Art Fund gave a £50,000 grant towards the purchase of the art work. The Ron Mueck art exhibition in 2006 became the most popular contemporary show ever organised by the National Galleries of Scotland. A Girl is a huge sculpture of a newborn baby, rendered in painstaking detail complete with umbilical cord. Mueck's sculpture includes every tiny detail down to the baby's wispy hair and hundreds of tiny folds and wrinkles in her skin. Ron Mueck's work became famous in 1997 when a poignant sculpture of his dead father's small, naked body was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in London. Since then his life-like sculptures, often naked and always much larger or much smaller than real life, have caused a worldwide sensation. (For full source and article click the Headline). Irish Art