Reliquary series

“These works are what I imagine future reliquaries to be. They hold sacred our ecosystem and all it’s precious inhabitants.

This work is inspired by medieval reliquaries that were often carved in wood and supposedly held the bones of long dead saints or other fragments of religious importance. These stunning, sculptural drawings imagine the losses we will lament in the next millenia.

They are beautiful and reverential pieces that contain actual mini-beasts and precious objects. They are gilded with 23 carat gold leaf and framed to archival standard with museum glass.”

Gill Walton