THE COLLECTIONS

THE MISS HAVISHAM ARCHIVE

Bird for Miss Havisham's wedding breakfast table, designed and made for Great Expectations [BBC 1998]

Porcelain roses; work in progress 1999.   “For twenty five days of the month the camellias were white and for five they were red; which I mention though I can not explain it.” Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Paris, 1840

DRAWINGS, 1981

'Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me…’

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861
 

Tomb of René de Chalons at Bar-le-Duc, Ligier-Richier

Design for a papier maché sculpture

Mummified body in the sand, Egyptian Department, British Museum