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About ‘Shoreline, Skyline, Treetop Messenger’ Juneau Projects
This summer during the Covid-19 pandemic lock-down, staff at North Lincolnshire Museum have been working with Juneau Projects and Invisible Dust to create a community artwork. ‘Shoreline, Skyline, Treetop Messenger’ consists of a book and sculpture, both inspired by the Museums taxidermy collection and created from artworks made by members of the public over Zoom workshops.
Juneau Projects are artists Philip Duckworth and Ben Sadler. They work across a broad range of art media including painting, sculpture, animation, performance, music and installation. Their work is often made in collaboration with other people and focuses on the relationship between society, culture and the natural world.
Juneau Projects were invited to make a new artwork inspired by North Lincolnshire Museum’s natural history collection. They focused specifically on the collection of mounted bird specimens, in relation to contemporary issues of biodiversity and species loss.
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The artists collaborated with scientists and researchers and looked at the collection in relation to historic and contemporary bird populations in the local area. For example, according to Hull University bird scientist Lucas Mander: “There is a species in the collection that is virtually extinct from the UK: the red-backed shrike. There are a few species which have declined sharply in the UK e.g. Curlew, Lapwing, Cuckoo, Corncrake, Hen harrier.”
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Based upon this research, Juneau Projects ran online workshops in painting, papercutting, lino printing and wax modelling with people from the local area, to produce a collaborative publication and an artwork for the Museums collection. The book includes illustrations created by workshop participants and writing by the scientists.
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The artwork takes the form of a display cabinet similar to those housing the taxidermy bird collection, but containing bronze cast birds created by local people during the workshops.
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