'Crow Papers' by Janet Tryner at Crow Recycling, Hillfields

Janet Tryner is a contemporary artist and printer who makes work about urban environments and ecosystems. She explores places at ground level and looks for traces of other living beings who also live in our towns and cities.

For this work she found lots of autumn foliage and traces of fungal and insect life on the surface of the leaves that she tried to recreate in her leaf prints. She also found pieces of litter, and tree seeds which she made resin casts from onto pins which hold the sculpture together.

On the pavement outside Crow Recycling, she found broken car window glass and this reminded her of the shiny pieces of litter crows are known to take into their nests, so she collected these and made them into more pins for the crows that she made from recycled plastic coffee cup lids.

Janet uses mirroring of forms in her printing as a nod to the effects of environment on our DNA, and also to give a sense of connections between objects that have fallen on the ground.