Museum of Migration

Museum of Migration - installation view

A nest, eggs and field notes exploring the remarkable breeding strategy of the cuckoo, whose egg colour is inherited through the female line.

A geometric arrangement of snail shells collected and polished from the farmyard. Inspired by a remarkable procession of snails crossing the garden.

A tribute to the frogs, toads, newts and lizards whose migration route once crossed our garden before changing course over time.

Found stones, fossils and naturally holed pebbles gathered over many years. The central figure was assembled from stones discovered around the farm.

A flick-book recording the swallows that gathered on the telegraph wires each August. When we first moved to the farm, hundreds would assemble above the garden, perched like notes on a musical stave.

Fragments of pottery and china recovered from the farm. Small pieces still emerge from the soil, appearing unexpectedly among the grass.

Seeds collected from the garden, from poisonous white bryony and willow catkins to tomato pips and acorns. Each has its own method of travelling through the landscape.

A drawer devoted to the unseen resident of the old farmhouse, whose presence has occasionally made itself known in unexpected ways.