Giraffes (Girondelle for Giraffes)

Pamela Boden

Pamela Boden lived and exhibited in Paris in the 1930's and was associated with the Surrealists. She was a close friend of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Stanley Bate (to whom she was briefly married). She designed the decor for Bates' 1939 revival of 'Perseus.'

"Giraffes" was exhibited with 6 other sculptures in 1978 through the Australia Music Centre in Sydney with the help of avant-garde composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks and music expert and author James Murdoch. Each sculpture had a short composition written for it, each by a different composer. Giraffes was exhibited with a composition by Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks titled "Girondelle for Giraffes."

There is an experimental film by "Dunite" artist Elwood Decker done in 1947 that uses Boden's sculpture in the beginning of the film. It can be seen at: http://elwooddecker.com/ColorFragments.html

Pamela Boden's work is discussed and shown on pages 76 through 81 of volume I in Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960