Decalcomania at the National Railway Museum

Decalcomania

“Queen posts”
“Sprag”
“Diamond Switch”
“Shoe beam”
"Jim Crow"

Glass cases of organized, annotated objects present a veneer of truth. They exude an aura of impenetrable distance: the standard museum display presents a one-way system of knowledge dissemination. Decalcomania is a collaborative project between Suzi Tibbetts and Hermione Spriggs. Beginning with terms taken from the railway dictionary, and obstinately blind to their original definition, new object-subjects will be intuitively fabricated. These artworks (‘faux’-artefacts) will then be inserted into cabinets within the Station Hall.

Decalcomania at the National Railway Museum

I have just begun work on a collection of objects for the National Railway Museum in York, entitled Decalcomania. The installation will take place throughout April 2011 alongside the York Open Studios, and is a collaboration between Hermione Spriggs and myself.....

.... more info to follow in due course.