Robert Adams

Watership Breakout , 2020

 
29 x 11 x 8 in

wood, fabric, porcelain

It has been exciting seeing all the new work our artists have created since March, when they became relegated to their separate studios. We received an image of these amazing bunnies from Robert Adams yesterday and immediately wanted to include it in Between Worlds.

Adams has spent some of the time rereading books he had loved in the past. He was in the middle of reading Watership Down by another Adams, Richard when he started thinking about his next project.

“Such a beautiful story,” he said. “I had to make a bunny. Then he got lonely, so I made another.”

He incorporated vintage fabric and clay in the base to give a more tactile homey feel to the piece.

Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published in London in 1972. Set in southern England, around Hampshire, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way.

“The thought of two making an escape together makes me smile,” says Adams

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