by dewilloyd | Apr 5, 2022
Flight of the Bumblebees Materials: Beeswax and mixed media Inspired by Rimsky Korsakov’s classical piece from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, in Flight of the Bumblebees Townsend uses traditional botanical wax sculpting techniques to create images of blossoms...
by dewilloyd | Apr 4, 2022
‘Aliens’ Series Materials: Beeswax and mixed media For Collect 2022 Townsend collaborated with Sally Whyman, the curator of vascular plants at the Welsh National Herbarium, National Museum Cardiff.In the Aliens series, Townsend and Whyman brought to life...
by dewilloyd | Feb 23, 2022
Creep 2021 Materials: Beeswax and mixed media In Creep, Townsend looks intimately at her own relationship with nature, through a series of common daisies, hand sculpted from beeswax and arranged in the form of a chain necklace. The flowers are worn close around the...
by dewilloyd | Apr 4, 2022
‘Life Support’ Series Materials: Beeswax and mixed media On 23rd March 2020 in response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, the prime minister of the United Kingdom announced in a live television broadcast the following instruction: we must stay at home....
by dewilloyd | Apr 4, 2022
Treasure 2020 Materials: Beeswax, pesticide residues in the beeswax (Azoxystrobin, Boscalid, Fluxapyroxad, Fenbuconazole, Penthiopyrad, Cyprodinil, Propiconazole, Metconazole, Pyraclostrobin, Trifoloxystrobin, Difenoconazole, Buprofezin, Chlorantraniliprole,...
