Epigenetics: [greek,epi=above,apon]

A study of changes in genome function, occurring without change to the DNA sequence'

[Or - the study of how patterns of gene expression are passed from one cell to its descendants, how gene expression changes during the differentiation of one cell type into another, and how environmental factors can change the way genes are expressed.]

1. On; upon: epiphyte.
2. Over; above: epicenter.
3. Around: epicarp.
4. Close to; near: epicalyx.
5. Besides: epiphenomenon.
6. After: epilogue

Work in the installation:

Victorian disease samples
7 white shirt collars
assorted tea set
mercury in glass jar
fruit bowl (belonged to artist's grandmother)
set of keys
clock
threads
'Glass Queen' washboard (defaced by the artist, aged 5)
photograph of installation "Julian" (Grandmother's nightdress, red thread, girl's shoe) 2004
Victorian child's armchair
Dutch doll (used as a prop in a painting by John Verney, the artist's grandfather)
horse's head from installation "Repeating Histories in the Memory of Horse" 2005
prayer book
lamp oil
jewellery box
photograph of children dressed as soldiers
needles
paint
key
porcelain doll's arm
coral
broken hand from 1920's shop dummy
"Bone face" sculpture - wood, polystyrene, lace, Edwardian silk samples, shells, 1930s hat-pin, vanishing muslin embroidery.
1950's vanity case
flying mask
Victorian wax posy
doll's cot (belonged to artist as a child)
4.5kg meteorite (L6 chondrite)
"baby" vanishing muslin
silk thread
"Vision" head - polystyrene, wood, paper, silk, netting from 1950's prom dress, pins.
1920's ballgown fragment screenprinted with artist's blood count
sewing box filled with dried lily petals
doll's wax-dipped arm
pins
Photograph of the artist aged 3, escaping on the Isle of Raasay.
3 childrens' mannikin legs
"Voice" head - polystyrene, wood, paper, handkerchief fragments, vanishing muslin, re-worked Victorian fan.
skull found on the Isle of Raasay
Edwardian velvet evening bag
pearls
Peter Else's uniform belt, sent home to his wife Elsie Else when he was killed in battle, 1944.