Health Matters Gallery mural
Science Museum, London
It's about time we
included this piece on the website. Ghislaine Lawrence and Janet
Carding commissioned Borin to create a 'Beginners-style' mural on DNA
for a new gallery in the Science Museum. Although the long gestation
period, caused by constant negotiation with the scientists caricatured
therein (some didn't allow it!), and having to fit into the overall
plans of a large exhibition involving sculptors, glass-blowers, exhibit
donors, writers and display/presentation designers, was frustrating,
the finished piece is a success. It's still there and the scale of the
piece, if nothing else is impressive. The finished work was done in the
normal way, using dip-pen and collage from much corrected generations
of roughs, on large sheets of Schoelerhammer paper. This was mounted
with an overaly to indicate second colour, then photographed and
enlarged to fit the display area. The red was added to the DNA
structures throughout and the whole integrated with documentary photographs, contemporary
wallpaper and a monitor screen cut in (the small
chap sits in front
of it saying 'Great! When's neighbours coming on?' - cheap, but quite
amusing). The audio booth and three dimensional pieces mean that you
have to bob about a bit to see every part of the drawing.
