Butterflies, Pot and Books

Vintage wooden pot and leather bound books, butterflies cut from mid-century identification book housed in a traditional taxidermy box.

Mixed media assemblage of paper butterflies, wooden book, vintage leather bound books housed in a traditional taxidermy box.

Dimensions: 25.5 x 21 x 8 cm.

About the artist:
Once-loved and valued treasures now gather dust and are destined to further decline; books that are damaged or foxed and no longer used for their original purpose, outgrown toys and forgotten treasures. I am imparting in these decaying artefacts a new narrative and a renewed value. Carefully hand-built with scalpel, glue and tweezers, I make my art from found and bought objects from the past. Some are housed in traditional taxidermy boxes, glazed with exhibition anti-reflective glass and framed with authentic passe partout tape. A reaction and a response to the found materials I have chosen to use as I explore transformation and preservation, each piece is wholly unique. I studied a BTEC in Art and Design at Norwich before completing a BA Hons Visual and Performing Arts Degree at the University of Brighton in the early 1990s and I still live on the south coast of England.