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Sarah Gillespie, Ermine Moths, etchings
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Claudia Faehrenkemper, Bug Portrait
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Aurora Sciabarra, Bees
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Jeroen Eisinga, Springtime
Exhibition
BUGS: bees, beetles, moths - our threatened friends.
14 Mar 2020 – 30 May 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
Address
- 17 Purfleet Street
- Kings Lynn
England - PE30 1ER
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses every 30 minutes from Norwich and Peterborough; also Coasthopper buses to beautiful north coast
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- Regular hourly trains from London Kings Cross and Cambridge. Journey time from London under 2 hours.
The exhibition addresses our complex relationships with some of the tiny creatures without which the earth would not survive.
Featuring works by Jeroen Eisinga, Claudia Fährenkemper, Sarah Gillespie, Aurora Sciabarra, Alison Turnbull.
About
This exhibition celebrates the beauty and power of insects at a time of increasing threat to many common species. Five international artists are showing work about bees, beetles, butterflies and moths, through drawings, paintings, film, etchings, installation, to explore some of their intricacy and wonder, but also some of the fears we experience when encountering them. Insects bug us - we fear their stings, we are annoyed at the holes they make in our clothing, we scream at their shiny carapaces, we suffer the germs they can spread. But these fears also contribute to their death and disappearance, caused largely by damage we are creating through the use of pesticides in farm, garden and home, and from the effects of global warming.
