Anatomy Lessons: In Conversation with Michele Beevors

Explore the process behind a body of work that transforms hand-knitted skeletons into powerful reflections on life, loss, and our relationship with the natural world.

Michele Beevors’ ongoing project Anatomy Lessons presents life-sized knitted skeletons of animals, from giraffes to frogs, each created through thousands of hours of handwork.

These sculptures are both delicate and monumental, inviting reflection on mortality, extinction, and the bonds between humans and animals.

In this In Conversation event, Beevors will discuss the origins of the project, the meditative process of knitting, and how her practice bridges art, science, and storytelling.

She will share insights into the themes of mourning and memory that run through her work, and how craft can become a powerful language for addressing ecological and emotional concerns.

This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artist about the inspirations, challenges, and ideas woven into her practice, and to engage in dialogue about the role of art in confronting difficult truths while offering space for empathy and connection.

Michele Beevors is an Australian artist who lives and works in New Zealand. She is Principal lecturer in Sculpture at Dunedin School of Art.

Her writing and artworks reflect an ongoing commitment to feminism and the ethical treatment of animals. Her work is held in public collections in Australia and New Zealand.
www.michelebeevors.org

Striking and ethereal, Anatomy Lessons features life-sized skeletons meticulously sculpted and hand-knitted to haunting effect, inviting us to reflect on our place within the fragile web of life and death.

Created by artist Michele Beevors, Anatomy Lessons is a quiet, tactile protest – a gentle but powerful call to recognise the violence humans inflict upon other animals, and to reconsider the patterns of behaviour that sustain it.

ANATOMY LESSONS
Museum at Inveresk | 2 Invermay Road, Inveresk, Launceston
20 December 2025 – 7 June 2026
Free entry | Open 10am to 4pm daily

Image: Michele Beevors, Epitaph (with trunk) [detail] 2022.

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