Display of fish eye pins and bones for Walcot

Add best end to be viewed

Yesterday set up display of fish eye pins for Walcot exhibition but it isnt at Walcot chapel as the chapel had a leaking room so removed to
146 Walcot street an empty shop.  Small but more comfortable

  Antique Ruskin ceramic pins

Cured fish skins -Carp, Salmon and Wolf fish

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

The remade broaches/pins I am making for the Walcot Chapel exhibition have as their base a pin that was made in 1900 by women who bought a kit which included a piece of ceramic from the Ruskin Art pottery and some pewter.   The pins soon became a badge worn by women to show commitment to The Arts and Crafts movement  with its rejection of mass machine production.   I have adapted these pins by using cured fish skins and making them look like fish eyes  so they can be worn to represent concerns that we are loosing fish stocks and abusing the seas with pollution.

Pike head 12" long

Pikes many sharp teeth

Head after boiling

Head stripped down

Bones from head drying

Bought a large Pike head in the market - 12" long. Boiled it and stripped the flesh off bones and dried them.  This produced many  bones some almost transparent.   The jaw is particularly interesting, it has three rows of small very sharp teeth the last row of which are hinged so they lock in to its prey.

wall in Pompeii villa

fish mosaic from Pompeii

fish mosaic from Pompeii

I have just returned from Italy and a visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum.   The walls of the buildings are made up of blocks set at an angle which reminded me of fish scales. The mosaics of fish are so amazingly detailed and show many kinds of fish.