Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, working closely with the Cetacean Stranding Programme at London’s Natural History Museum, retrieved the skeleton of a minke whale from the beach at Skegness, Lincolnshire, and immersed the bones in an alum solution to form an encrustation of ice-like crystals. The work was inspired by voyages to the arctic and a film documenting the process accompanied the piece.
This is part of the Job: 2K/20224 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk; within the Volume: VF000147 Post-War Buildings (English Architecture: 1945-1975); within the Series: EHC01/041 English Architecture: 1945 - 1975; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
© Historic England Archive
Photographer: Davies, James O: English Heritage
Late 20th Century Art Gallery, Art And Design
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