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Falling Angel by Rozie Keogh - Click on image for a bigger picture TRANS-FORM
    Rozie Keogh

Trans-form is about the metamorphosis of items in the museum collections into changed forms - an amalgamation of garment making and biology.

Study drawings were made during visits to the museum collections that became the starting point for the work. These collections contain things that have not been on show for a long time, yet everything must be kept safe and catalogued.
Trans-form is an imagined dreamscape where certain pieces from the collection have escaped through the walls of the watercolour gallery.

The studies were taken mostly from items that had a strong association with Worcestershire - the shoe and glove industry, garments given by local people and the extensive natural history collection. The space where the collections are kept was itself like something from a dream, a dream where everything was from the past and largely forgotten. The work in the gallery is not about the past, but about something new that has grown out of it.

The cocoons are of fragile appearance and almost empty yet the making of them was long and painstaking. Because they are knitted from steel they are stronger than they look. The winged insect-like creatures that are flying free are ridiculous constructions; somewhere in their evolution they have become changed. Some of the garments have been dormant for years in cardboard boxes like rectangle chrysalises. They have been freed and altered, amalgamating with the insect world creating new species to fly into the gallery.

The museum manikins are redundant now that the garments have taken life.