Four seals (Tromso)
Digitally printed freehand machine embroidered textiles, 2014. The skulls are based on ones at Tromso Polar Museum, the maps and charts relate to where those specific species can be found. They are approximately life sized.
Digitally printed freehand machine embroidered textiles, 2014. The skulls are based on ones at Tromso Polar Museum, the maps and charts relate to where those specific species can be found. They are approximately life sized.
Born digital image, 2015. Line drawing of the Whale Ship Truelove from Hull placed onto one of my photographs of the southern tip of Greenland near Cape Farewell.
Born digital image, 2015. Line drawing of the Whale Ship Truelove from Hull placed onto one of my photographs of icebergs in Southern Greenland.
In July 2014 I was fortunate enough to go on a trip to Iceland and Greenland. Sailing from Liverpool (appropriately an old whaling port) we visited Reykjavik where I saw orca, as well as a wide range of traditional tools and implements made from stranded whales at the National Museum and Skogar Museum. The Icelandic term for whale bone washed …