About this artwork

The print combines a film-still of a dinosaur in a landscape from the fantasy adventure film ‘One Million Years BC’, with an image of a mouse with a human ear grafted onto it. The mutant mouse was created by scientists as the first step in replacing damaged or missing human body parts. The artist comments: ‘I think the ear-winged mouse has a mythical quality, an aberration to match any unicorn, faun or mermaid.’ This work is from a portfolio of prints by eleven different London-based artists, called ‘Screen’. The title is taken from the screenprint technique but also refers to the fact that most of the artists had worked with film or photography.

Updated before 2020

  • artist:
    Abigail LaneEnglish (born 1967)
  • title:
    Dinomouse Sequel Mutant X
  • date created:
    1997
  • materials:
    Screenprint on paper
  • measurements:
    30.50 x 63.50 cm; paper size: 56.80 x 88.30 cm (framed: 86.30 x 117.00 x 2.70 cm)
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Purchased 1998
  • accession number:
    GMA 4200 F
  • gallery:
  • subject:
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Abigail Lane

Abigail Lane