Accession Code: wu0683 Title: Starlings Date completed: 1994 Medium: Prints Material: soft ground etching Height (mm): 309 Width (mm): 413 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed and numbered 14/80. Stamped BS Location Name: Life Sciences, Gibbet Hill Location Description: B block Location Floor: 1

This etching is from a set of nine prints published in 1994 by the Byam Shaw School of Art to raise funds for its student scholarship and bursary fund. The participants generously donated their work and the portfolio was printed in an edition of eighty. The artists were asked to contribute an image reflecting one of the birds of London. The purpose was not to produce an ornithological record but to provide a unifying theme through which the individual temperaments and styles of this group of distinguished artists could be expressed.

The portfolio was purchased for the University by the Friends of the Mead.

Much of Prunella Clough's work has been abstract, though industrial landscapes often featured in her early years. In Starlings she has indicated a typical location in which the birds are seen, thus offering a quintessential London image.