Mews Room
Lucy Meyle
28/04/22 - 21/05/22
Twenty falcons sitting in rows
Gloved hands holding
Ringing-jangling-jingling
Cocked heads, tuned ears
Listening four and two
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For Mews Room, the equipment used in falconry is examined and playfully remade alongside an oversized musical score. Bells used for tracking the birds become musical instruments, reproduction perches used in falcon hospitals become places of rest for replica eggs, pattern pieces for protective gloves are left unsewn, and leashes left untethered. These objects are suspended briefly in their new states – temporarily reoriented alongside the lines of a musical stave and the rhythm of a pop song for an absent falcon audience.
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Lucy Meyle uses sculpture, publication, installation, and video as sites for re-imaging and re-imagining our relations to what is human and more-than-human in the time of climate emergency. Recent exhibitions include Snail Time II (with Ziggy Lever) at RM Gallery (2022), Snail Time I (with Ziggy Lever) at Window Gallery (2021), Butter Point at Paludal (2020), and Soft Spot at Enjoy Gallery (2020)
Design by Zoe Hannay
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