Mrs
Bone (Artemisia for Artemis)
2024 – 2025
Diamond point engraving on flameworked laboratory glass.
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Glass is central to our representations of scientific research, with its arrays of test-tubes, flasks and retorts etcetera. Maria Hebraica, or Maria Prophetissa, was an early alchemist living in the first century. She developed chemical apparatus for heating and distillation still used around the world in laboratories today. One might say the origins of the laboratory are both feminine and mystical.
Anne Vibeke worked with scientific glassmaker Brian Jones to playfully feminise laboratory glass objects. This bottle is dedicated to Eleanor Rae Bone, the Wicca ‘Matriarch of British Witchcraft’ also known as Artemis, who lived and is buried a stone’s throw from Anne Vibeke’s studio in the North Pennines. The bottle is decorated with leaves of the herb Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort) found growing near her grave in Garrigill.
2024 – 2025
Diamond point engraving on flameworked laboratory glass.
Glass is central to our representations of scientific research, with its arrays of test-tubes, flasks and retorts etcetera. Maria Hebraica, or Maria Prophetissa, was an early alchemist living in the first century. She developed chemical apparatus for heating and distillation still used around the world in laboratories today. One might say the origins of the laboratory are both feminine and mystical.
Anne Vibeke worked with scientific glassmaker Brian Jones to playfully feminise laboratory glass objects. This bottle is dedicated to Eleanor Rae Bone, the Wicca ‘Matriarch of British Witchcraft’ also known as Artemis, who lived and is buried a stone’s throw from Anne Vibeke’s studio in the North Pennines. The bottle is decorated with leaves of the herb Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort) found growing near her grave in Garrigill.