Anatomical Reference Torso
Work in progress. These images depict anatomical reference models used by medical students. Through the representation of human systems, these models take on the role of the "perfect human", showing the body as it is meant to be. These models are undoubtedly valuable teaching aids, allowing students to easily see aspects of the human body in three dimensions. However, these models are still very different from what they represent, painted plastic rather than flesh and blood. More photographs to come.
Rembrandt Self Portrait - National Gallery of Scotland
Work in progress project. This project is being undertaken as part of my MA studies at ECA. It involves the investigation of different collections and their methods of display. This project will also look at the way in which collections are stored and curated, and their importance as cultural artifacts.
Royal College of Physicians Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh
Photographic investigation into the storage and display of the book. Concentrating on specialist and private collections, this project looks at the buildings and architecture that exist around books, organising the vast amount of information into a searchable collection. Lecture theatres are also part of the project, as they are spaces in which information is taught and absorbed, in a similar way that books allow.
Private Sign
Work in progress project. A series of photographs investigating the usage of space within stately home gardens, particularly for tourism. This involves the management of the local environment to provide activities for visitors, from putting courses to riverside walks and the objects that accompany them, such as signs and benches.
Big Top before a performance
Documentary project following Zippo's Circus, one of the few remaining traditional family circuses, complete with animals.
These photographs consist of portraits of people involved with the cirus, their lives inexorably linked to constantly performing and moving town. More portraits and documentary photographs to come.
Completed wolf mount in studio
Photographic investigation into the conservation and creation of taxidermy for a museum context.
Taxidermy is a method museums have used since the victorian era to display animal specimens to the general public. Since then, wildlife television programmes and photographs can display the animals within their natural environment, negating the orginial neccessity for taxidermy. However, it still remains a valuable and intriguing method of education to this day, and no other method of display allows the public to get so close to physical representations of these animals.
Stoat
Taxidermy historically has mainly occupied two contexts. One is that of teaching aid, a visual and accessible specimen of a species, displayed in a museum. However, taxidermy is also a method of creating hunting trophies, records and displays of kills in lands domestic and foriegn. This project investigates the representation of taxidermy, an interior specimen of an exterior animal. Paired with careful dioramas of their natural habitat and floral wallpaper, these animals occupy a context completely of their own, both real and wholey faked.