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Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')

John Kindness (b.1951)

The Royal Hospitals

Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')
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© the artist. Image credit: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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The work takes inspiration from the song 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly', and also from an exhibit in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, which featured a cabinet displaying a collection of things that people had accidentally swallowed.

The Royal Hospitals

Belfast

Title

Bird (from 'The Museum of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly')

Date

1998

Medium

ceramic

Measurements

H 61 x W 40 x D 36 cm

Accession number

RVH_25

Work type

Sculpture

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The Royal Hospitals

274 Grosvenor Road, Belfast, County Antrim BT12 6BA Northern Ireland

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John Kindness

b.1951

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