Artwork description:

First Panel of a Triptych. This piece explores Alcock's journey to learn more about and raise awareness of the decline of pollinators, caused primarily by loss of habitat, intensive farming techniques and largescale use of pesticides and herbicides. Her journey began in 2018 when she was invited to create work in response to this theme and exhibit with four artists at Vestry House Museum in an exhibition organised by Alke Schmidt called ‘Swarm: Artists respond to the pollinator crisis’. Following a series of visits to the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity in the Natural History Museum in 2019, where she sketched pollinators ranging from bumblebees, bees, moths to hoverflies and beetles, she began turning her sketches into works of art. Her work in the Swarm exhibition was a triptych of linocuts.

Inky Cuttlefish Studio chopmark is in the right-hand corner.

Materials used:

HANDPRINTED LINOCUTS WITH CHINE COLLE ONTO SOMERSET COTTON PAPER

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