An illustrated talk by Richard Schofield at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 26th April, 1.00-2.00pm.

Having pursued the chance to create a display in the library archive cabinet, this opportunity fuelled my love of museum objects and the chance to create a near surreal series of connections, (through curiously mixed taxonomies).

‘You are a projection of my mind’, says Pincher Martin, RNVR, the shipwrecked sailor in William Golding’s eponymous novel of 1956. Towards the end of the book he becomes almost totally consumed by hallucinations, as his identity disintegrates, despite his determination to survive.