There are over 50 objects that have been collected & made.
Certain items are for sale ~ please contact the artist for more details.
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Certain items are for sale ~ please contact the artist for more details.
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1: A cast of Einstein’s Brain that was removed seven & half hours after his death, the cast is set in a block of resin. (for sale £500.00)
2: The second camera belonging to Russian film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky was 11 at the time when he received this sophisticated piece of equipment that enabled him to go on and become one of the world’s most innovative filmmakers.
Tarkovsky was 11 at the time when he received this sophisticated piece of equipment that enabled him to go on and become one of the world’s most innovative filmmakers.
3: The Dove of Peace found on the border of Iran and Iraq.
These remains are said to be the dove that left Noah’s Ark and returned to the ark with an olive branch. The ark ran aground on Mount Ararat.
These remains are said to be the dove that left Noah’s Ark and returned to the ark with an olive branch. The ark ran aground on Mount Ararat.
4: This near-religious object contains the sperm of Michael Jackson.
Michael had his own semen mounted into a book and adorned with roses, a true portrait of self-love.
(for sale £300.00)
Michael had his own semen mounted into a book and adorned with roses, a true portrait of self-love.
(for sale £300.00)
5: Gulliver brought this armchair and settee back when he returned from Lilliput following his extensive travels.
6: This cast of Lenin's finger was made during the embalming process. The finger is famous throughout Russia as the finger Stalin used to point back to Russia from Finland.
This pose was employed in multiple statues of Lenin striking the said pose pointing the said finger.
This pose was employed in multiple statues of Lenin striking the said pose pointing the said finger.
7: Two bottles of body waste collected whilst the artist lived in a 35 square meter Swiss Cross for the 333 hours as part of the art project 3:3:3.
(for sale - £300)
(for sale - £300)
9: This cast of Marilyn Monroe’s vagina is a perfect example of orifice moulding.
There have been decades of curiosity regarding Marilyn’s orifices being an icon of beauty and sexuality.
(for sale £450.00)
There have been decades of curiosity regarding Marilyn’s orifices being an icon of beauty and sexuality.
(for sale £450.00)
10: The telephone used by Chairman Khrushchev during the Bay of Pigs crisis in 1962 set up for
Chair Khrushchev to talk to President Kennedy.
Chair Khrushchev to talk to President Kennedy.
11: A Hornet
13: Baby / Bag 239. This object was originally given to a woman who had given birth to a child whilst out of wedlock - the woman had been placed into an institute for inebriated women - the new born baby was taken off the woman and replaced by baby 239 - a rag doll - this happened around the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1970s baby 239 was taken off the woman and replaced by a handbag - thus the woman in question had two children taken from her.
14: Book & Chalk
(for sale £75.00)
(for sale £75.00)
15: A brick taken from the old Stasi building following the unification of east & west Berlin.
The brick had had an ear stuck to it seemingly as a reference to walls having ears.
(for sale £75.00)
The brick had had an ear stuck to it seemingly as a reference to walls having ears.
(for sale £75.00)
16: 50 grains of sand gathered from the Sahara Desert.
(Andrew Speak gift)
(Andrew Speak gift)
17: A Curious Eye – Book with the skull of a bird.
(for sale £75.00)
(for sale £75.00)
18: This item was found in the caves of Afghanistan and saved from destruction during the Russian invasion of the country in 1979. It arrived in Russia where it was found in a flea market in Siberia and brought to England in 2001.
19: 1960’s advertising for jam
20: This roll of film is believed to be undeveloped images from Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein’s last film.
His brother Andre Eisenstein sealed the images to suspend the vision of the director’s eye for ever.
(SOLD)
His brother Andre Eisenstein sealed the images to suspend the vision of the director’s eye for ever.
(SOLD)
21: This cigarette holder belonged to Russian writer Dostoyevsky and celebrates the statue of Peter the Great in the city of Saint Petersburg. Dostoyevsky is famous for his books, Crime & Punishment and The Idiot.
23: These fragments are gathered from the H Blocks in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland: a location that is being erased from the surface of memory.
These objects were collected from the cell of Bobby Sands.
These objects were collected from the cell of Bobby Sands.
24: A shotgun cartridge filled with the blood of another.
25: A prisoner’s drink. (Republic of Ireland)
27: A skull of a kangaroo from central Australia gathered by the artist whilst searching through the deserts for a sister, Her name was Carole.
The skull is set into a book.
(for sale £105.00)
The skull is set into a book.
(for sale £105.00)
28. Bluebeard's ladies.
28: From Bluebeard’s castle the dolls are thought to reflect a deep psychotic tendency of the owner of the castle – that being Blubeard himself
(Found by artist Helen Sargeant - on loan.)
(Found by artist Helen Sargeant - on loan.)
29: Thought to be a proto type for a large projector being designed by Thomas Edison.
This projector was going to project large-scale images onto the White House for the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover who was fond of James Cagney films.
Edison sadly passed away before the completion of the projector and the bulb remains.
This projector was going to project large-scale images onto the White House for the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover who was fond of James Cagney films.
Edison sadly passed away before the completion of the projector and the bulb remains.
30: This spider was the pet belonging to Little Miss Muffet. When the spider passed, away Miss Muffet had it sealed in a book with a magnifying glass, enabling her to still see her cherished pet.
The spider, who was called Edith, never left Miss Muffet’s side.
(for sale £65.00)
The spider, who was called Edith, never left Miss Muffet’s side.
(for sale £65.00)
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32: Pets belonging to Jeffrey Hudson.He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus", and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness.
The cat named 'sheep' has been stuffed, the dog called 'Francis' has been caste.
Jeffery was a curious and daring person and it is a shame we do not have him in our cabinets.
The cat named 'sheep' has been stuffed, the dog called 'Francis' has been caste.
Jeffery was a curious and daring person and it is a shame we do not have him in our cabinets.
33: An American solider retrieved Tankard 601 in 1945 from Hitler’s bedroom in his Berlin bunker and is thought to be the vessel Hitler had his final drink from before ending his life.
34: Imagine Peace stamp employed by Yoko Ono at Tate Liverpool.
Thank you Yoko – we imagine peace all the time thanks to you.
Thank you Yoko – we imagine peace all the time thanks to you.
35: Russian soldiers used this field communication phone during the siege of Leningrad, which started in 1941 and ended in 1943. The phone was used to deliver the message that the Germans had retreated and that it was safe to come out.
36: Following the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in 1971, his hair was cut and mounted into a book of wax. The book has only just been recovered from a loft in an apartment on the rue Beautreillis in Paris where Morrison was living. The owner of the apartment is thought to have cut Morrison’s hair while he was lying dead in the bath.
(for sale £250.00)
(for sale £250.00)
38: An ounce of blood extracted from the Queen of England as proof that she, like everyone else, has red blood.
The extraction took place in November 2003 in a secret location.
The extraction took place in November 2003 in a secret location.
39: A book saved from the Nazi Book campaign of May 1933 when an estimated 25,000 books of “un-German Spirit” were burnt. The book - originally a copy of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital – was saved by Gertrude Kappel, who set an angel into the book as a lasting memorial to the loss of books on that night in May 1933.
(for sale £95.00)
(for sale £95.00)
40: A very angry book.
(for sale £55.00)
(for sale £55.00)
41: Hair spun into gold.
42: News of the World ‘Knight of the road award’ for saving a driver from a burning car. The award was given to post-posthumously to a passerby, who having saved the driver, went back to the car to save a cat. The car blew up killing the ‘Knight of the Road’. The body was so damaged that no identity could be given. (1959)
43: Extractions taken from the artists body for 'atomic reason'
45: This collection of sand is from Marco Polo’s journey across China in 1675.
The grains of sand and rock plus a fragment of wood were gathered from the Gobi Desert.
The grains of sand and rock plus a fragment of wood were gathered from the Gobi Desert.
46: A flock of hair from the performance – ‘rituals of being not being’ by the artist in residence in Galway, Republic of Ireland.
47: A cast of Josephine Beauharnais’ right breast. The breast was made for Napoleon for his time away whilst at war. He had a particular fondness for Josephine’s right breast and would hang it up in his tent.
49: Rubber gloves used during the surgery on Kennedy immediately following the assassination of Kennedy in 1963. The president was rushed to Parkland Hospital.
50: A human born.
51: Hats hand made by inmates of an asylum.
These hats were worn by the local brass band for boys who played at the asylum built for inebriated woman.
These hats were worn by the local brass band for boys who played at the asylum built for inebriated woman.
52: Crucified Hope.
(for sale £600.00)
(for sale £600.00)
All images photographed by Lyndon Mayhew~Dodd