{"id":137319,"date":"2025-11-13T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:35:14","slug":"turner-prize-nominated-artist-opens-exhibition-and-the-only-artwork-is-a-10-tonne-pile-of-rope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137319\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Prize-nominated artist opens exhibition \u2013 and the only artwork is a 10-tonne pile of rope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">David Shrigley\u2019s piece is made up of 10 tonnes of discarded rope\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork 'Exhibition of Old Rope' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2bb772e-1055-47ad-9737-2f79bd3e7860.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork &#8216;Exhibition of Old Rope&#8217; at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork 'Exhibition of Old Rope' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ARTS Rope (33).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork &#8216;Exhibition of Old Rope&#8217; at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork 'Exhibition of Old Rope' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763026513_823_c2bb772e-1055-47ad-9737-2f79bd3e7860.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork 'Exhibition of Old Rope' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763026513_844_ARTS Rope (33).jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Turner Prize-nominated artist has launched an exhibition where the only artwork is a 10-tonne pile of discarded rope priced at \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">David Shrigley spent months scouring the country for unwanted material to prove he really can get money for old rope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">All lengths gathered for the installation \u2013 from cruise liner mooring lines to slim cords used for crab and lobster pots \u2013 were treated and cleaned at Shrigley\u2019s studio to prepare it for public exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He said: \u201cThis exhibition started with an idiom. Old rope has no use. It\u2019s also hard to recycle, so there\u2019s a lot of it lying around.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork 'Exhibition of Old Rope' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763026514_994_ARTS Rope (33).jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist David Shrigley with his new artwork &#8216;Exhibition of Old Rope&#8217; at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London. Lucy North\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI thought, what if I turn that into a literal exhibition of old rope? And then say, yes, this is art, and yes, you can buy it for \u00a31 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Exhibition Of Old Rope will run at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London from November 13 to December 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Shrigley\u2019s piece is made up of 10 tonnes of discarded rope Artist David Shrigley with his new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-137319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}