Angela Cockayne

Biography

Angela Cockayne is an artist, curator, and author of two books including Dominion: A Whale Symposium (Wunderkammer Press, 2011) and Provenance (Wunderkammer Press, 2010). She is a Reader at Bath Spa University and a Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts.

See Work

FINE DISTINCTIONS / Summer 2016

Hair vs. Fur

By Gregory McNamee ,  Illustration by Angela Cockayne

“Adam catched Eve by the fur below,” goes an old English song from the swampy fens of Norfolk, “and that’s the oldest catch I know.” The ditty may not be suitable for work or for younger audiences, but it points to a tricky matter of...
FINE DISTINCTIONS / Summer 2016

Of Hounds and Dogs

By Gregory McNamee ,  Illustration by Angela Cockayne


All hounds are dogs. All dogs are not hounds, a fact for which dog trainers everywhere are no doubt grateful.

Every one of the world’s 400 dog breeds has its origins in Canis lupus, the wolf, domesticated on the trash middens of the ancient...
FINE DISTINCTIONS / Summer 2016

Of Marsupials and Placentals

By Gregory McNamee ,  Illustration by Angela Cockayne

Why are there no giant tree-climbing, carnivorous kangaroos in the stately magnolias and maples of Central Park?

It’s a question of what might have been. To be fair, those lethal hoppers—called marsupial lions, less for their gross anatomy...
FINE DISTINCTIONS / Summer 2016

Venomous vs. Poisonous

By Gregory McNamee ,  Illustration by Angela Cockayne

Beware the Jabberwock. Beware the basilisk, too, that terrifying creature of the medieval bestiary.