ARTIST NOTE – Megan Bowyer, Climate Museum Young Associate
These pieces of writing and digital images were made during a 17-day residency with Tullie and Climate Museum UK, during Megan’s role as Climate Museum UK Young Associate. Megan’s practice originates in drawing and writing, and she is interested in the way landscapes, animals and humans interact! During her time at Tullie she was interested in a collection of wildlife observation cards, originally collected by the Carlisle Natural History Society. These hand written and typed cards contain recollections of animal and plant sightings, and are often written uniquely and beautifully. Some even contain drawings, attached photographs, and maps.
Megan hopes to show this hidden part of the museum’s collection, and reflect on her time working in the research area of Tullie House — an area not available to the public. She reflects on the content and artistic value of the cards, and what it means to observe and collect in [ FEMALE (IMMATURE) ROAD CASUALTY (DEAD) ], and elaborates on more of their unusual tales in The Stranger of the Botcherby Night. Some writing from the observation cards are taken verbatim, to make a series of haikus and the poem I still present here. Even though the observation cards are used solely in the natural history section of the museum, Megan also wanted to think about the Tullie collection holistically, imagining combining the archeology, geology, costume, and art collections through writing, and in scanned images and sculptures.
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