Publicity for Coastival 2014 application

Friday 14th February until Sunday 23rd February

"The Movement and Action of Worms"

By Helen Birmingham

An exhibition of mixed media textiles and print, showing an artist’s unique visual interpretation of one of the world’s oldest ongoing scientific experiments. The images are playfully based on a Darwin’s book “Mould and Worms” (1881) in which he investigates how the action of worms can cause objects on the surface to become buried over time.

This exhibition is the long awaited “next evolutionary step” for Helen Birmingham’s work and shows the continuing inspiration she has found in Charles Darwin's studies. It follows her very successful 2009 exhibition in Cambridge “Voyage of Discovery” which was a visual interpretation of Darwin’s thinking behind “The Origin of Species”.

 

"The Movement and Action of Worms"  includes altered photographic images, together with textiles and quilting, etching and silkscreen printed images.