Egyptology

The Egyptian Galleries of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford features, in its permanent collection, a small Egyptian child mummy; placed directly next to it, is a rendering of the child - a delicate and ethereal glass sculpture showing its slender form, drawn in ink on 111 glass sheets by Angela Palmer. To create this work, the mummy was taken to the John Radcliffe where it underwent CT scans, revealing many mysteries about the child. Equipped with new information and thousands of scans, the artist used the technique she has developed over many years, to recreate the child, drawing details from scans onto multiple layers of glass sheets. Andrew Nairne, director of Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, remarked 'Palmer's project means we know a little more of the narrative of what happened to a small boy in Egypt, during the Roman Period...Palmer's achievement is to have found a way of experimenting which enriches us all.'