View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:11735062
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
"Fascinated by the human activity of categorising species, I became interested in the cases of Lepidoptera amassed duing the Vicorian era. In these the moths and butterflies are typically pinned and labeled in neat rows. In my own work I imagined these creatures coming back to life and trying to escape from the case. The result is a frenzied mass of moths hitting the glass as the compete with each other towards the light."--Artist's statement.
Exhibition History:
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
Subject Terms:
Moths -- Pictorial works. | Natural history. | Lepidoptera. | Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Cut-paper works.