Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

I started a, a solo, solo exhibition called Lost and Found.

Started off at Warrington Museum, and then I took it down to Bristol Museum, and it w- it was, you know, really big show in the, in the foyer in Bristol Museum for two months, and, uh, thousands of people went through.

Yes.

It, it was, it was, it was amazing really.

When the Swindon ghost hunters unearthed the bones of that woman and child, the rumor mill immediately kicked into overdrive.

Stories spread that iron shards had been sent to the Bristol Museum and that experts had supposedly confirmed that they were the remains of an iron dagger used in an ancient pagan human sacrifice.

and when the ghost hunters crashed their car on the drive back along the highway that night, John Humphreys claimed that spirits had taken their revenge for disturbing the grave.

The truth of that burial is quieter, but in many ways far more tragic.

Yeah, I was.

I was about eight and it was in Bristol Museum and they were doing this thing where somewhere in a room in the university they were unwrapping this Egyptian mummy and then there was a live video feed through to the foyer of the museum and I sat there, I think, for hours watching this.

and was absolutely fascinated and in that way you can then kind of post hoc construct the narrative of your life where actually it was very chaotic and going off in various directions much much later when I was at Bristol University and I was working with a wonderful man Jonathan Musgrave who was a forensic anthropologist learned a lot from him and we were sharing an office and I saw that on the On his shelf, he had this book about the Bristol Mummy Project, Horem Kenny C, he was called, this mummified individual who was unwrapped.

And I said, oh, I saw that.

I saw that unwrapping in Bristol Museum.

And he said, oh, well, yeah, I was one of the people unwrapping it.

And you go, oh, there you go.