Arts & Culture Exeter | Insect Chimeras

Insect Chimeras

Colourful artwork and poetry created by students from Thoverton C of E Primary School and Stoke Hill Junior School.

Created by students from Stoke Hill Junior School, Exeter.

27 August, 2020

Collaborating with printmaker and 2019 Urgency Arts Commissioned artist Catherine Cartwright, poet Fiona Benson ran a series of poetry and printmaking workshops at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum with children from Thorverton C of E Primary School and Stoke Junior School.

Inspired by insect collections held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum the children created a series of colourful prints and poems with sound production by Eliza Lomas.

Enjoy the stunning results below.

Artwork

Below is a selection of artwork created over both workshops.

Insect Love Songs

Throughout the 2019/2020 academic year Fiona ran a series of poetry workshops in both the South West and London, bringing people together with the worlds of poetry and entomology. Some of these workshops were run in collaboration with entomologists, scientists and researchers and others asked participants to take inspiration from insect specimens.

Climate and Environment

Bioluminescent Baby

Beautiful, poignant and visceral, Bioluminescent Baby is a series of 14 original poems written and read by Fiona, interwoven with snippets of interviews with entomologists, scientists and researchers from across the globe.

Literature

In the Company of Insects

An 18-month collaboration between award-winning poet Fiona Benson and sound artists Mair Bosworth and Eliza Lomas. Uncovering the fascinating world of insects, the commission culminated in a stunning series of sound poetry pieces split into three parts.

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