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Herring Girl 40cm x 35cm, glass and unglazed ceramic tesserae. 'Herring Girl' was inspired by the Scottish herring girls who followed the shoals of herring down the coast, and worked long hours bent over a trough full of fish, gutting 50 FISH IN ONE MINUTE and layering them in barrels with salt. I watched this woman on a 1920s Pathe news report, and couldn't actually see what she was doing with her hands, they were just a blur of movement. The herring boats had deep red sails and were so many that they spanned Scarborough's horizon like a line of fire.
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