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FOUND FEATHERED FRIENDS A steep staircase descends into Jane Gillings' subterranean art studio, with a sign perched above the narrow entrance inviting you to enter her 'Bower'. It accurately describes the jewel-like treasure trove that lies within. A rainbow labyrinthe of bright plastic objects and found materials, all carefully ordered into various boxes and shelves, are graded into a candied assortment of colours and shapes. Gillings, in fact, refers to the bower bird as her 'artistic totem'. Like her ornithological soul...more