1479 plates - Combe Down Stone Mines Stabilisation Project
Date uploaded: October 21, 2009
Chris Tipping ‘1479 plates’ was produced in celebration of the Combe Down Stone Mines Stabilisation Project.
An exhibition featuring Chris Tipping’s map of bone china dinner plates – entitled 1479 plates – which explores the relationship between present day
engineering and mining technology, stone mines heritage, natural history and two 18th century entrepreneurs Ralph Allen and Josiah Wedgwood. A selection of work by other artists commissioned for the Combe Down public art programme will also be displayed.
24 October – 17 November 2009
The Octagon
25 Milson Place
Bath BA11BZ
Opening hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 11am –3pm
Exhibition flyer - pdf document
Combe Down Stone Mines Project - more information on the public art project
Download the Press Release(29 KB)
