The Botallack Hoard

"Relics, artefacts and god-dollies from the consumer cults that thrived on the South West Peninsular at the end of the 2nd Millennium AD."

Imagine, many years from now, archaeologists search the Cornish landscape for clues of the lost society from 2000AD. How would they interpret the junk that they find. What would it tell them about the consumer society?

In The Botallack Hoard, David Kemp acts as just such an archaeologist curating the weird and the wonderful, re-imagining items from old mine workings, farm dumps, beaches and boot sales as the tools and inventions of a vanished society......

"I make things out of things, big things, little things, old things and new things. I like to recycle things, and find new uses for things that have been thrown away. Some things say something about their surroundings, and other things become something else."
                                                                                                                    David Kemp

For more than 20 years, David Kemp has lived and worked on the exposed Atlantic coast of West Cornwall - inspired by the natural landscape, and by the remains of the tin-mining industry carried out there since medieval times. Living among the ruins, he collects fragments, piecing together curious connections between past and emergent mythologies and technologies.