19th October-11th December 2009
Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.30pm.


The Descent Of Man
Cut book jacket in acrylic case   2009


The Name In The Flower celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species with specially commissioned work by Georgia Russell and Sam Winston. Inspired by Ruth Padel’s Darwin, A Life In Poems, the artists respond to the zoologist and the poet with dissections of their writings.

Exploring language as an object, Sam Winston traces the evolution of meaning out of mark-making. His work questions our understanding of words and linguistic structures, suggesting alternative maps of meaning through which to wander. Georgia Russell slashes and dissects printed matter to make sculptural paper-works that hover between object and image. Approaching old books as representations of the many hands which have held them and the minds they have passed through, the artist creates ‘membranes of memories’ that suggest these personal histories. Mirroring Darwin’s genealogy of the material origins of cognitive beings, both artists explore the physicality of language and expand its boundaries.

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