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First day with the sponges

Close up of Venus’ flower basket glass sponge. LDUCZ-B39 Today I begin an artist-in-residency position at the Grant Museum of Zoology, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. I’ll be working with the Museum’s...

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Mystery Blob Sponge: It crawls! It creeps! It eats you alive!

Day four of my sponge exploration (I’m here for ten months as the Museum’s Artist in Residence). There’s one specimen on the shelf that I’ve been saving as a particularly special treat… it looks like...

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Through the Looking Glass Sponge

Since joining the Museum as artist in residence last month, I’ve spent a lot of time looking through glass. I’ve looked through the plate glass cabinets protecting the specimens, the thickly blown...

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The Glass Delusion

Frontispiece of Johann Becher’s Physica Subterranea. ‘Man, like all animals, is glass and can return to glass’ writes the German alchemist Johann Becher in his work Physica Subterranea published in...

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Glass Delusions opens today

A photogram created by exposing photo-sensitive paper with the Grant Museum’s glass sponge specimens sat directly on it. (C) Eleanor Morgan Glass Delusions is a new exhibition at the Grant Museum...

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When your head is made of glass

This is a guest post from our artist in residence Eleanor Morgan. It is part of a series exploring the exhibition Glass Delusions at the Grant Museum of  Zoology. The sponge man, 2015. Print on Ilford...

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Letting things draw themselves

This is a guest post from our artist in residence Eleanor Morgan. It is part of a series exploring the exhibition Glass Delusions at the Grant Museum of  Zoology. Emerging #5, Photogram, 2015(C)...

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Look, draw, scan, invert, colour in. REPEAT.

This is a guest post from our artist in residence Eleanor Morgan. It is part of a series exploring the exhibition Glass Delusions at the Grant Museum of  Zoology. Sketch 3 (C) Eleanor Morgan I have a...

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