2 May 2022
Archive Fever
Archive Fever is a collaborative project with Modern Painters, New Decorators, a not-for-profit artist-led organisation in Loughborough. Our collections are popular with artists as a source of inspiration for their work. This project has opened up our collections to emerging visual artists and will support an exhibition at Modern Painters, New Decorators Gallery in Loughborough.
Jagjit was intrigued by the taxidermy specimens bagged up ready to be frozen. We freeze some items in the collection to kill any insect pests.
Jagjit Kaur with one of her works at the Modern Painters New Decorators gallery in Loughborough.
Some of our butterflies from the Natural Life collection in Jagjit's show.
Joanne's ceramic works reference the wooden plant models she studied.
Joanne Masding studied some of the wax plant models we have in the collection. This piece responds to the way they are made.
Joanne Masding's work based around pond weed specimens from our collection.
Archive Fever will result in four exhibitions of newly created contemporary visual art by emerging artists, accompanied by a programme of creative workshops with local young people.
The four artists have visited the Leicestershire museum collections to explore and respond to objects that interest them and which will inform their work. Some of these objects may then be incorporated into their exhibitions.
The four exhibitions took place at Modern Painters, New Decorators in Loughborough during a 10 month period from January to November 2022.
