Honey Bee

Description

Artist Philippa Bentley brings together her fascination with insects and her love of museum natural history collections to create her beautiful and distinctive artworks. She makes prints and assemblages combining insect images with some of New Zealand's best loved heritage brands, such as a twist on Anchor butter with this butterfly. A delicate yellow, this is a pretty butterfly in the collection yet with closer inspection 50 gram butter marks subtly radiate across the butterfly's wings and the patterns on the wing tips are actually the familiar anchors in a row. "Just as butterflies are caught and preserved, archived in a museum specimen box, so are our experiences somehow captured and archived as our memories. We are all collectors of days, of memories." There are layers of references, associations and meanings in each work when they are complete. "I'm happy if people simply enjoy them visually but for me they are 'memory boxes' and reflect on memory and identity." Screen print, hand pulled, and then individually hand painted by the artist. Includes Eyelet screws and nylon string.