Kit Martin Photography

This exhibition in The University of St Andrews was curated by a brilliant group of MLitt Museum and Heritage Studies students in 2016.

The inspiration for the exhibition was St Andrews resident Prof James Bell Pettigrew (1834-1908), who, alongside his medical career, studied locomotion in animals for most of his adult life. He became an authority on the subject and had a particular interest in flight. He even built a flying machine with flapping wings and flew for about 60 feet down a St Andrews street before crash-landing.

The exhibition featured large cyanotypes along with digital Duratrans prints displayed on lightboxes and digitally printed fabric as well as some of the museum’s wonderful specimens. There was also a virtual reality element that gave visitors the experience of flying over St Andrews.