Exhibition Details

A Garden of Lantern Birds - Museumaker
Sat 30 Oct 10 - Sun 30 Jan 11

As part of the national museumaker project the Museum has commissioned work by maker Laura Baxter. Laura is a craftsperson who uses metals, glass and wood to create jewellery, lighting and decorative installations, combining hand craftsmanship with modern laser and water jet cutting technologies and unique shape memory alloys.

Laura will create a Garden of Lantern Birds, inspired by bird images from all sectors of the Museum’s collection, using flat powder-coated steel. The lanterns will be displayed in the parterre garden during the autumn and winter months. Inspired by the Museum’s Blackborne Lace collection, each bird will display a filigree pattern, lit by an integral light source. As darkness falls the delicacy of lace will be revealed in each lantern bird. Laura will also lead a series of free creative workshops, involving young adults, throughout the period of the exhibition. The final workshops are taking place over the weekend of 29th /30th January.

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