Tenth Exhibition

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Earthly Remains is a manifesto of the fragility of nature and wildlife, created by British Artist, Liz Davis.

The main body of work in this exhibition features an installation in the basement gallery, in which a badger skeleton is treated with the reverence we usually associate with human beings. The delicate remains are beautifully decorated and placed with care in a reworked burial site reminiscent the rituals of the ancients.

On the upper floor gallery is a series of miniature coffins, each solemnly contains the remains of the beloved wild life recreated by Davis in different representations. Alongside these beastly sculptures which are beautifully bejewelled, Davis continues a series of paintings whose subject is influenced by the ground beneath our feet as a record of the lives and deaths of animals, birds and insects through traces and remains, exposed through layers upon layers of glaze. Some of these paintings will be shown in the exhibition.

Earthly Remains hopes to raise awareness of our fragile wild life, which is under constant threat, particularly by the invasion of natural habitats through humans. The series of funeral pieces are purposely created by Davies in the hope that the viewer will become more sensitive to the senseless slaughter of wildlife in our countryside, and intends to treat the badger with a reverence in death, prompting a similar respect for the living animal.

Also held in the upper gallery a retrospective of “Flat Earth 2007” by Roger Coleman – A series of thought-provoking and beautiful photographic works about the impact of urban modernization on rural landscape that subtly resonate Davis’ narration of value.

18 April – 17 May 2008