Anatomy Lessons: Michele Beevors

Featuring meticulously-sculpted, life-size skeletons, Anatomy Lessons is breath-taking and ethereal, making the visitor question their place in the web of the living and the dead.

Each creature, a real animal, is painstakingly measured, drawn, sculpted from steel, wire, and foam, and then knitted over, in a fine-art softening of the subject beneath.

An exhibition 17-years in the making, the process is exacting, from sketching exhibition pieces to measuring bones in museum basements, Beevors precisely recreates and memorialises the life of the animal, expanding on the wider themes of human culpability, asking us to care.

From the towering giraffe stretching 4.4 metres in height, head raised to the ceiling, to the army of 50 plus delicately rendered frogs, the exhibition has received critical success, and enthralled audiences across Australia and New Zealand with its scale and stories.

Image: Michele Beevors, Topsy, 2021, wool and mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.