Plymouth Museum | Labelled
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AJ
Throughout June
Labelled is an installation by RSA Fellow Dail Behennah which addresses issues around species diversity and conservation.
The installation comprises 500
enamelled labels, taken directly from labels in the museum’s natural history
collection, suspended in a circle in front of a large window. The
labels belonging to species in the collection which are now extinct or
endangered have been enamelled in red and hang outside or at the very edge of
the circle. This brings home the fact that species in
Britain are under threat and that
these issues are not confined to plants and animals in far away places.
The installation, which has
been purchased for the Museum’s permanent collection, will remain in place until
March 2010. For more information, visit the Museum's website.
