The Urban Moth is a fine porcelain moth, the fictitious construct of artists Angela Tait and Ian Clegg. The moth is a reimagined species, with camouflage patterns helping it hide against museum objects and urban environments. It could live within the Manchester Museum, on and amongst the collections and galleries.
Angela and Ian are artists from the North of England. Ian is a photographer and Angela is a sculptor who deals primarily in ceramics. See here for more information about the artists.
A paper model of Alder Leaf Beetle (Agelastica alni) made by a GCSE art-student, who visited the Manchester Museum’s Entomology Department and was inspired by the diversity and variety of our insect collections.
A decorative purse produced to commemorate the famous, German-born naturalist and nature-artist Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717), renowned for her work on insect metamorphosis and for her illustrations of insects and plants. See here for more information.
Wall decorative ceramic plate adorned with flowers and butterfly, handcrafted in Seville (Spain) and handpainted with the dry rope (cuerda seca) technique. Produced by ‘Art Escudellers’, a company that was founded in 1997 in order to recover the traditional, handmade pottery production dated back to the 14th century. See here for more information.