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found in translation

Catherine Truman

Sue Lorraine

July 4  to  July 29, 2006

Over many years Truman and Lorraine have shared a fascination in historical research, collections and collecting.

Truman’s interest resides in anatomical models and medical illustrations of the 16th century. Her finely carved works reference fabric, flesh and paper and ‘emit a powerful intensity, through a paradoxical fusion of poignantly human and eerily inhuman’.

Lorraine, drawn to the compulsive nature of collecting, has made work in response to the many things that are deemed not worth saving yet still find their way into inventories of numerous natural history museum collections – the unclassified and undervalued specimens that have survived over the decades on the shelves of the storerooms.