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5 June to 31 August 2013
Exhibition
Sculpture Season聽saw 13 emerging artists from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art聽be聽invited to re-curate the Museum鈥檚 spaces with their own sculptures, interpretations and installations and presented an exhibition like none other seen before in the Museum.聽
Sitting alongside the Museum鈥檚 historic skeletons, skulls and specimens preserved in jars, the new works engage with animal/human encounters through re-animated flesh, tunnelling rats and mice, giant worms and body bags.聽
Shinobu Soejima. Adorn My Sleep (2013).聽Kiwi specimen, cotton.
Amy Brennan. Ofma 1G (2013). Foam, polymer, pigment.聽
Isabelle ZhiZhi Southwood. Me with the floor showing kicking with your torso (2013). Mixed media
James Trundle. Pinkasso (2013). Oasis, clay, polymer plaster, green wax, tunnelling rats, tunnelling mice.聽
Jane Bercelova. Migrant Evidence (2013). Mixed media.聽
Jazlyn Eng.聽
Jenkin van Zyl. Buzz (2013). Vinyl window stickers.聽
Jessica Ciantar. Lumbricus Rebellus slump (2013). Fabric.聽
Joshua Way. BUFF BOY聽(2013). Digital prints, vinyl, pigment.聽
The artists have responded to the physical spaces and specimens of the Museum, creating music technologies, phantom occupations of the Museum鈥檚 iPad apps, hand-knitted internal organs and explorations of the excessive masculinity of giant deer antlers. Specimens have been re-ordered, re-labelled and reimagined.
