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"The work itself is careful, exquisite and dark. She has made robins draped across prayer books under tiny chandeliers, lovebirds gazing at their reflections in miniature mirrors above tiny splayed-out mouse rugs, as well as wilting pheasant chicks suspended from resin-coated balloons, which were produced as an edition for Damien Hirst's shop-cum-gallery, Other Criteria. Her later pieces have been more ambitious in scale and production: Departures, the flying machine sold last year, was a cage held aloft by a cluster of birds that included three white-backed vultures. Her new show will include another flying contraption constructed of balloons, a stuffed cardinal and a replica human rib cage. "I considered buying a real one," she admits, "but if it was sold abroad it would have been a problem with import and export.""
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REACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE PLEASURES OF A HAND-SHARPENED PENCIL.
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A prototype from BBC Research & Development: The most shared BBC links on Twitter.
links for 2010-07-20 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.