The Bestiary
Phlegm
London, 2014

A bestiary is an illustrated compendium of animals, half real and half imagined that sets out the natural history of beasts and their moral significance. A bestiary was not a scientific text and while some beasts and descriptions were quite accurate, others were completely fanciful. Such bestiarys belonged to the ancient world and were popularised during the Middle Ages as didactic tools. 

For The Bestiary, Phlegm created a modern bestiary within his own universe through an immersive and large scale installation in wood, clay and plaster which took the artist over six weeks to construct in situ at the gallery.