epidermis

Epidermis was produced during a fellowship at the Berwick Gymnasium Gallery in 2001 (with English Heritage). In epidermis the relationship between two important local industries, the armed forces and fishing, were brought together by the formal process of taking the ordinary boundary lines of the Gymnasium floor and transforming them into physical objects, suspended from the ceiling, by using salmon fish skin and bone to sculpture. Process is an important part of my work and in this case I have used 2,500 salmon skins and 1,500 bones, which have been previously cleaned and preserved. epidermis was exhibited at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Galleries in December 2001 and toured to Fabrica Gallery, Brighton in 2002.