A NORTH-East museum has won a share of £75,000 to buy more art.
Durham University’s Oriental Museum won money from Art Fund Collect to buy a piece called “- + , -”, by Min Soo Lee.
Curator Craig Barclay said: “We absolutely love this piece because it is all things to all people.
“It’s a marvellous piece of ceramic work and it reflects continuity in tradition in Korean pottery making but also reflects a modern age.
“We hope to have it as the centrepiece of our new Korean gallery and we are absolutely certain that the public will love it and continue to engage with it.”
The Art Fund is a national fundraising charity for art. Art Fund Collect offers UK museums the chance to enhance their contemporary craft collections. The pieces were bought from galleries at Collect, an international art fair for contemporary objects.
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