A Potent Charm

A series of photographic images and drawings inspired by the Edward Lovett collection held within the Cuming Collection.

Elephant Atlas exhibition curated by Sophy Rickett featured work by Xana, Sarah Butler & Eva Sajovic, Sophy Rickett, Steve Martin, Paul Tebbs, Jessie McLaughlin, Janetka Platun, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Liam Magee, Beverley Carruthers, Lalu Delbracio, Pamela Abad Vega, Marcus Boyle, Harold Offeh, Adam Dant, Alan Kane.

For the Elephant Atlas project, seventeen artists and writers were commissioned to produce a work draws inspiration from this unique context. Working across photography, illustration, installation, artist lm, creative writing and participatory practice, they have explored many diverse ideas, including the legacy of colonialism in contemporary society, the notion of how an original trauma or loss might stimulate new forms of growth, the pathology of collecting and the rich diversity of oral histories.

The Cuming Museum Collection is a repository for the histories
of a community; a way to imagine and re-imagine the lives that were lived here before, their politics, preoccupations, beliefs, ways of life. Elephant Atlas celebrates and explores it, and its current condition in all its delightful, yet challenging diversity.

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