The Reliquary Project
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 06/05/2017

The Reliquary Project is the culmination of artist Jo Dacombe’s residency within the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History, which began in September 2014. Dacombe worked within the Bone Laboratory, examining themes and ideas inspired by animal bones and skeletons, exploring the subject matter she encountered through the process of making art. Dacombe will discuss the themes behind The Reliquary Project works and threads that developed through different pieces, how themes informed the use of media and how the media informed the thinking process. The range of ideas she explored in a visual way included bones as material, bones as landscape, ways of “seeing” with technology, notions of mythology and sacredness, and how ways of displaying change how we value objects.

Jo Dacombe, University of Leicester