Moon Egg exhibited in A Strange Kind of Knowing, a touring exhibition

A Strange Kind of Knowing, a touring exhibition of new commissions and recent work exploring the land, seasonal cycles, natural phenomena, intuition and nuance. The exhibition presents works that draw on alternative, marginalised and embodied ideas of knowledge intrinsically connected to the natural world. The exhibition is presented at venues in central London and at a new rural gallery at Haarlem Artspace. Penny McCarthy’s sculpture Moon Egg (2018) is a blown hen’s egg delicately painted with a map of the moon in its actual elongated form created by the gravitational push and pull of the Earth. Connecting cycles of the astronomical with the embodied, the work relates to early depictions of the moon by John Russell and Galileo, and the role of intuition in depicting individual perspectives and realities.