Hatchings

Patriot Hall Edinburgh 2010

This Easter-themed exhibition was part of the Dialogues programme - a series of annual exhibitions commissioned by the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. This joint show with Rachel Maclean focused around the changing identities of the egg. Hatchings encompasses contrasting notions of birth, life and death from two very different creative angles.

‘In spite of the visual opposition between the two artists on show, the identically shaped wax heads that Lyons adorns with contorted shapes and visually unnerving materials such as human hair are aligned with Maclean’s work through their conception. Coming from conflicting material processes both sets of work are united by their fundamental aim to distort our perception through mutation and stunted growth.’

The Edinburgh Journal