Productions
Over the years Ouse Valley Bait has supplied maggots and flies for many productions. Our customers have included the BBC, Damien Hurst, Stephen
Spielberg and what was probably our most ambitious project, the supply of 13 different coloured maggots for Nick Knight and
Alexander McQueen's Angel - an artwork to celebrate the millennium.
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Of Maggots and Madonnas
Text by Susannah Frankel
The concept is quintessential Knight/McQueen. Create the face of an angel and
place it, pride of place, in a church in the southern French town.
Nothing much new about that, you might think, except that instead of using stained
glass or any other such obvious and/or widely deemed appropriate materials, the
pair constructed the piece entirely out of dyed maggots – 80 gallons of dyed
maggots, to be precise. It’s a frankly horrifying thought, which is, of course, the
point. The designer and photographer have by now collaborated on more than one
idea that subverts our preconceptions of what is and isn’t beautiful. Ideas that, on
the face of it, may rile the more politically correct among us and appear to be no
more than sensational, once executed seem rather more tender, lovely – moving
even – than had been expected.
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The same carbon fiber insets are placed upon the top of the crown guards. The chronograph a gas pedal as I recall. A new and distinctive crown also had a unique appearance.
