Tracey Bush

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collections 2025

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For many years Tracey has made scrapbooks, collections of ephemera that could not be thrown away. The use of scraps is a way of recycling both materials and images in a process of reconstruction. These very personal books emerged as Lepidoptera; butterflies and moths, ancient symbols of transformation. Each moth or butterfly is hand-cut from layers of recycled papers and then sewn together using a bookbinders pamphlet stitch. They are then pinned out in entomological boxes made by the suppliers of the Natural History Museum London and the Paris Museum. 

 

The collections of British Butterflies are handcut from vintage maps of the Sussex. There are quirky links between the butterfly name and the material used. The poetic names such as Meadow Brown, Chalkhill Blue and Small Heath are hand-written in brown ink on tiny scientific labels. Butterflies are amongst the first indicators of environmental change; these collections hope to highlight their frailty and diversity, as an alternative to a collection of actual specimens.

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