Epidermis_2

Epidermis was originally created on a fellowship at the Berwick Gymnasium as a site-specific work. Where the relationship between two local industries, the armed forces and fishing are brought together by the formal process of taking the ordinary boundary lines of the Gymnasium floor (and the shapes they form) and transforming them into physical objects, themselves transformed from fish skin and bone to sculpture. Unexpected materials, in this case fish skin, are used to make striking items which examine and expose how the mundane can be converted into works of beauty. (please see in site-specific under epidermis).

The work was re-installed at the Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove in Glasgow under very different conditions and artificial light that brought out very different qualities to the work.