This large-scale painting by artist Alana Jelinek reminds us of the original locations and geographies of the collections by creating a series representing bird's eye views of different climates and places. On top of these landscapes, museum staff, academics, community groups, and visitors have been invited to contribute their understanding of the collections, how they got here, and what they mean to them. We hope the artwork will become a visualisation or 'map' of relationships between the past, ourselves, artefacts and places.
Images from the painting surrounding a Maya cast, 2024.
Contributors have added to the painting throughout 2024. It is facilitated by Alana Jelinek who is a painting tutor at the Royal College of Art. The site-specific large-scale collaborative painting is a research project and experiment for Jelinek as she attempts to find a visual language for the relationship between people and things over time and space, which have come together in the Andrews Gallery from many thousands of years ago and from many thousands of miles away.
Alana Jelinek adds to the large-scale painting in the Andrews Gallery, 2024.
The mural and graffiti wall are generously funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Impact Accelerator Award.
