Shelling Out

Shelling Out

SHELLING OUT- plaster, acrylic, mixed media, found objects 2015

installation consisting of creation processes and display areas, based on ‘shell lunacy’ or Conchlyomania - tanks holding pairs of completely identical sea shells for sale lets the viewer decide which are real and which are valuable. Original shells collected from Thanet and Kent coastline, fake shells hand-cast in plaster and meticulously painted over several months.

Exhibited at Crate Gallery Margate.