‘My starting point for the work I will be making on this residency is the Archaeology department. I studied archaeology for a few months before changing my degree to art and so I have always had a deep interest in the subject. I’m looking forwards to working with the museum and developing my own take on this unique collection.
I will start my investigations with the ways in which some archaeological items in the museum are stored. Each precious piece has its own specially labelled and numbered container, where the object is protected and held secure in Plastezote , a type of storage foam. I am interested in the abstracted shapes cut into this foam to support the items and will be using these negative spaces to inspire a new series of castings and drawings.
I plan to set up a small scale foundry in the museum garden and I will be casting new relics based on the shapes I find in the plastezote, with a new categorisation system set up to record the items which I use in the commission. I will also be developing interactive ways in which visitors to the museum can then dig up these items themselves, and experience finding hidden items.’
Bucks County museum residency. 2019 