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{Phaidonidae}
2013
Field guides, Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, specimen cabinet, entomology pins
Photography: Josh Murfitt
Phaidonidae consists of a collection of approximately 1400 butterfly illustrations pinned in an original Rothschild 10-tray specimen cabinet sourced from the Natural History Museum. The work comprises one butterfly for each artist profiled in the Phaidon Encyclopedia of Artists (1978), creating a new Family of lepidoptera, hence the title.
The work is a memorial to the memory of the artists, a mausoleum as it were in which the memories of their efforts and ideas (as documented by Phaidon) can be housed. It is also a reflection on museums and the nature of collecting, sequencing and organising as a strategy for understanding the nature of art.
Exhibited at History of Art Library, Cambridge and currently on loan to Westminster Reference Library, London
Field guides, Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, specimen cabinet, entomology pins
Photography: Josh Murfitt
Phaidonidae consists of a collection of approximately 1400 butterfly illustrations pinned in an original Rothschild 10-tray specimen cabinet sourced from the Natural History Museum. The work comprises one butterfly for each artist profiled in the Phaidon Encyclopedia of Artists (1978), creating a new Family of lepidoptera, hence the title.
The work is a memorial to the memory of the artists, a mausoleum as it were in which the memories of their efforts and ideas (as documented by Phaidon) can be housed. It is also a reflection on museums and the nature of collecting, sequencing and organising as a strategy for understanding the nature of art.
Exhibited at History of Art Library, Cambridge and currently on loan to Westminster Reference Library, London