The Battersea Hoard
Royal College of Art – Work In Progress - end of first year show – Battersea – The Battersea Hoard
A 3 day group show/open studio at the RCA Sculpture Building,
15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, SW11 4AS.
I
presented a fictive archaeological dig, The
Battersea Hoard - an excavation of a wax block containing a 500
strong collection of my late mother’s dolls house pieces
The Battersea/Hastings Hoard – a fictive archaeological dig by Roger Miles and
Fraser Carr Miles
October 2016 - December 2019
Eight years ago, I took my
late mother’s collection of 500 dolls’ house pieces and combined them with
molten beeswax in a 15inch cube box. It was an art experiment and I had hoped
the cube would be translucent and the viewer would be able to make out the
dolls’ house objects, suspended in space.
Unfortunately, it just looked
like a block of wax, with no clue as to its contents. I almost threw it away on
several occasions but something made me hang onto it.
The presentation of the dig
and the stories behind the finds in the RCA Work in Progress show can be
further investigated in my film on YouTube – search for The Battersea Hoard or
go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdpiUOIAr4t
The half excavated wax block
remained untouched until July 2019 – my son Fraser was about to become a father
and I visited his studio in Hastings with the wax block
Over 2 days I fully excavated
the remaining pieces and since then Fraser has been photographing the 500
pieces.
Website -
www.rogermilesartist.com
Email - rogermiles41@gmail.com
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