Farm World
Karen Thompson
Scarborough, England
A mixed media composition of plastic farm toys, dead honey bees and a porcelain chemical barrel. This piece is commenting on the use of pesticides and the effect they have on the environment.
This is a drawing for a proposed ceramic piece in the style of Staffordshire Pottery. It is a response to the fact that Chinese scientists have genetically modified cows to produce human milk for infants.
A contemporary modern day Grim Reaper, commenting on GM crops and the unknown outcome they may have on our health.
One of the battery hens taken from A Poultry Life.
De-beaked and malformed hen egg baskets, this piece takes the historical ceramic egg holders and subverts them into modern day battery chickens, displaying them on a cross between battery cages and supermarket shelves.