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Nicky Coutts : My Previous Life as an Ape

25 Apr-24 May 2015

Danielle Arnaud
London SE11 6SF

Overview

Mimetic animals with eyespot markings have colonised the landscaped garden idyll at Lincoln’s Inn. The buildings that surround it represent the highest concentration of lawyer’s chambers in the UK. This setting has become the unlikely setting for a series of commissioned drawings, by former court artist Sian Frances, of a lookalike murderer re-enacting his own transition from police cell to first appearance in court. He reappears again to mimic drama students from the Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD) in their attempts to become animal at London Zoo.