Last Saturday, Simon Costin, Joyce Froome, Steve Patterson and
Helen Cornish took part in an amulet workshop, ‘Cosmologies of Care’, at the
Horniman Museum in London.
The workshop was an unmissable opportunity to handle some of
the Horniman’s remarkable and beautiful amulets from Europe, the Middle East
and Africa, and compare them with amulets in our collection.
There was then a series of presentations by our team and the
other participants – Rashad Salim, Iraqi artist and expert on the geometry of
magic, and Beverly Butler, Anne Lanceley and Mike Rowlands from University
College London – which provided some fascinatingly varied insights into the
importance of magical objects.
Many thanks to Tom Crowley, Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp and
all the rest of the Horniman team involved in organising a very enjoyable and
thought-provoking event.
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