Out of time

A cross-disciplinary exhibition inspired by the arts of taxidermy, June 2007, Hunterian Zoology Museum, Glasgow University

artists: Jethro Brice – Kate Foster – Andrea Roe
geographers: Hayden Lorimer – Merle Patchett
taxidermists: Dick Hendry – Peter Summers

out of time was an exhibition inspired by the arts of taxidermy, showing work by artists and geographers. It takes great skill to separate a skin from a body, and then to rearrange it in a lifelike form. Taxidermy is one way that dead animals are preserved for collections, giving animals an extended ‘afterlife’. Animals remains are transported into the realms of human culture – and if they are acquired by a zoological museum, they survive in a hushed and unruffled world, without daylight or changes in climate. Specimens may endure when a species becomes extinct or endangered, perversely becoming more valuable. Each of the different exhibits shows something taken ‘out of time’. We looked at those fine lines between life and death, nature and culture, the artificial and the real.

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