Leda and the hat-pin is Linda Crook’s second medal for BAMS, the first, Bite back, having been issued in 1993. About her new medal, the artist writes: ‘I wanted to make a set of three medals based on stone carvings which I made around three Greek myths. I felt the these myths – Leda and the swan, Apollo and Daphne, and Europa and the bull – needed some re-working. I wanted to free the women in them from the role of “victim”. In Leda and the hat-pin, the first in the series, we see the concluding episode of the story, hitherto unpublished. The swan is unable to escape being made into a fancy hat – which Leda tidies up nicely with a hat-pin.’
Leda and the Hatpin
Leda and the Hatpin
By: Linda Crook, 1999
Medium: cast bronze
Size: 78mm
Cast by: Bronze Age
Edition: 31