Specimen Colony

Cultural Writing. Art. Produced in collaboration with The Bluecoat, Liverpool's oldest arts center, Alec Finlay's SPECIMEN COLONY draws on an exhibition and permanent open-air installation of participative public sculpture that creates a series of colorful colonies formed by nest boxes -- functional and familiar objects created by Finlay whose form suggests the schematic figure of a bird. Finlay's work transposes the colors of exotic birds found on foreign postage stamps onto these nest boxe…