The exhibition in the Walkway Gallery comprised of painted portraits of individual islands, made during lock down; documented installation photographs taken by Alexander Brattell when the Archipelago was installed in a raw unmade space at the Observer Building, Hastings, 2020, and some of my own island photographs with a more dream like atmosphere.
To give visitors the sense of the scale of the islands in relation to the human body, I installed a few actual islands from my co-created Lilliputian world of over 40 fossilised and cast islands, made from found objects. Additionally, I added a few speculative texts from my ‘researchers’, which I began writing for insta posts a while back.

‘Our geologist and archaeologist inform us that all of these islands were formed from previous objects that were lost by humans’

‘Found recently at the outer edges of the archipelago, the Spectrum Islands are the most colourful we have come upon so far in our navigation through this Lilliputian world.’

‘Our researchers are finding that these islands may have been abandoned by humans due to toxic chemicals left in the ground’

Hastings Museum & Art Gallery

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