Ascender (2024) – gannet bird skull, machined metal, calipers – 25 x 6 x 13 cm.

Ascender (2024) – gannet bird skull, machined metal, calipers – 25 x 6 x 13 cm.

Ascender (2024) – gannet bird skull, machined metal, calipers – 25 x 6 x 13 cm.

The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (2010/2024) – exhibition detail: “Trees” (pp. 130–131), Taschen, poplar wood shelf.

Untitled (2024) – set square, framed digital print of pine forest, broken mirror – 60 x 40 cm.

Ariadne’s Crown (2024) – exhibition view: motorcycle windshield, thread, guinea fowl feather, 1 krone coin, metal rail, wheels – dimensions variable.

Ariadne’s Crown (2024) – detail: motorcycle windshield, thread, guinea fowl feather, 1 krone coin, metal rail, wheels – dimensions variable.

Ariadne’s Crown (2024) – detail: selenite crystal (gypsum).

Ariadne’s Crown (2024) – motorcycle windshield, selenite crystal (gypsum), thread, guinea fowl feather, 1 krone coin, rock, motor, metal rail, wheels – dimensions variable.

Ariadne’s Crown (2024) – detail: guinea fowl feather, 1 krone coin, metal
rail – dimensions variable.

Untitled (2024) – postcard showing p188 (Incipit to Luke) from the “Book of Kells”: a 9th century illustrated manuscript and Celtic Gospel containing
the four Gospels of the New Testament – 10 x 15 cm.

Alchemical Tree (2024) – spruce log, grass snake, broken iPhone, motorised saw blade, plastic strut, charcoal.

Alchemical Tree (2024) – detail: preserved grass snake.

Untitled (2024) – exhibition view: exposed plasterboard ‘labyrinth’ and pine wood studwork – dimensions variable.

Gaia (2024) – tree root, Berlin Wall fragment (broken off in 1989 by my mother when she was six months pregnant with me), gold chain, fossilised lobster claw, pheasant feather, protractor – 50 x 20 x 15 cm.

Gaia (2024) – detail: Berlin Wall fragment broken in 1989 by my mother when six months pregnant with me; plastic protractor.

Gaia (2024) – detail: tree root, gold chain, pheasant feather.

Gaia (2024) – detail: tree root, gold chain, fossilised lobster claw.

ALEX HAMISH MILLAR