“This is a sublime scientific and imaginative journey to the bottom of the sea… Colossal bones, recorded whale sounds and a lucid account of their evolution, make for a haunting and informative encounter with some of the most astonishing animals on earth.” – Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Hope, the 25-metre-long blue whale skeleton, has transformed…
Category: EXHIBITIONS
Secrets from the world’s most famous theatre company: writing text for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s exhibition in Stratford, The Play’s The Thing.
“Although the exhibition (refreshed every six months or so) is packed with facts and figures, it’s also hands-on and interactive, making it particularly family-friendly.” – The Guardian, 8 April 2019 Which household name made his first appearance in Shakespeare as a court jester? What fruit makes the perfect fake eyeball? And how do you make realistic but light-weight…
‘A must-see exhibition’ – New Scientist: Exceptional fossil evidence reveals the frondy, spongy, leafy nature of the earliest animal life in a new exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, with my text.
“For a glimpse of life right at the start of the age of animals, you can’t ask for anything better than this.” – New Scientist, 24 February 2020 When I did my MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College in the 1990s, one of the authors we read was Stephen Jay Gould – a science…