Robbie Bushe. Neoneanderthals
A tour through the chambers, DNA harvesters, laboratories and medical theatres which make Neanderthal de-extinction possible. These seven drawings, all rendered using watered down and mixed gouache, a dip pen and brush, were conceived as backdrops for animated stories.
DNA Cloning Chambers
The cloning chambers need to be close to forests, where the new Neanderthals can best adapt to hunting large beasts with their stabbing spears. 2018, 71 x 92cm
The Forest Transference Chamber
An underground den where scientific ‘boffins’ can stake out and transfer DNA from the wild and then create new Neanderthals in a chamber. 2019, 90 x 73cm
The Rural Underground Centre
This is a suburban outpost for returning Neanderthals to ‘the wild’. 2019, 93 x 75cm
The Laboratory Under the Office
A playful rendering of the 1950s sci-fi trope of secret laboratories set up under scientific offices, where tortures devices and compression chambers exist whose sole purpose is to recreate Neanderthals… for good or ill. 2019, 92 x 75cm
Ward of Delusion
Here the Neanderthals can convalesce and then be put through further testing. 2018, 92 x 75cm
The Provincial DNA Harvester
Much like the revolving door apparatus, this DNA harvester extracts modern human Neanderthal DNA while they go about their business. 2018, 92 x 75cm
The DNA Extracting Revolving Door
An ingenious laboratory where a revolving door extracts DNA covertly as the innocent pass through… 2018, 93 x 75cm