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Sat 04 Apr 2010Crochet to die for gives life to coral reefs
Australian twins Margaret and Christine Wertheim have used incredible crochet techniques to put the fate of coral reefs in the public eye and more than a million have queued up to see it
THE NEW exhibition at the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin is an amazing merging of art and science in the interests of environmental campaigning and community engagement. Spanning two floors of this light-filled space are crocheted coral reefs that are mesmerising in their intricate beauty and their incredible visual resemblance to the coral reefs whose environmental destruction they set out to demonstrate.
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