Evacuate

This artwork featured in House of Beasts (2012). 

Evacuate plays with the “behind the scenes” world of the kitchen. Thousands of bird feathers, each taken from a species such as pheasant or grouse, regularly shot and cooked, are here re-assembled to create a new “creature”. Creeping and spilling out, the work feels weighty, meaty and unsettling.

The viewer is at once taken by the gorgeousness of the piece itself – the assemblage of “common” feathers presented as something completely exotic – and shamed by the discarding of objects and beauty in favour of a perfunctory dinner.

This piece is a reworked version of he Tatton Park Biennial 2010 installation commissioned by Parabola.

Image: Kate MccGwire, Evacuate, installation view, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012. Image courtesy of Meadow Arts. 

 

About the artist

Kate MccGwire

Kate MccGwire exhibited in House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012.

Image: Kate MccGwire, Evacuate. Game bird feathers coming out of pot on range. Courtesy the artist. Originally commissioned by Parabola for the Tatton Park Biennial.