A new display by contemporary artist June Kingsbury examines the fragility of life and the incorporation of nature into material things.

This small installation at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum features glass and porcelain casts of animals that Kingsbury found dead by the roadside, such as squirrels, rabbits, rooks and toads.

Over the past year, Kingsbury has walked the same route every day, mostly through woods and fields but also through two sections of road. She has used the bodies of the animals she found in her work, often later returning the animals to the place she found them.

"By casting dead animals in glass you take away all the deadness, there is no blood, no fur, no feathers or pecked-at corpse," says Kingsbury. "Photographs do the same, they take away the smells and sounds and glass does the same".

The display includes a cast glass squirrel on a cast glass tyre tread panel, a bone china mouse in a box, a porcelain rabbit on a shelf and a glass cast of a cat called Molly, a much-loved family pet. Kinsbury's contemporary display will sit alongside the traditionally preserved (by taxidermy) rare and extinct animals in the Museum's collection.

The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum is the Natural History Museum's sister institution in Tring, Hertfordshire. It opened in the late 1800s to house the collections of Lionel Walter, second Baron Rothschild. The museum offers examples of 19th century taxidermy at its best and was bequeathed to the nation in 1938. It is now part of the Natural History Museum and the public galleries have recently been modernised.

Only the Movable Things is on until October 2.

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