TAXIDERMY.
After looking very briefly at some of the histroy of taxidermy, it lead me into current taxidermists and probably the most well known and contemporary artists that uses taxidermy, POLLY MORGAN, i fell in love with her work straight away.
Polly Morgan, born 1980 is a british artist sits at the forefront of contemporary taxidermy, her work is shocking, her animals look alive and realistic. However they do not sit in their natural surroundings.Her work is about the corruption of nature,it shows octopus coming out of fox carcasses, it places animals in scenery they are not exoected to be in, it removes all sterotypes and associations.
she gives ideas of life and death but in a subtle way.
All the animals Morgan uses have been donated to her once they have already died, so no animals are harmed to make her art work. It could almost be seen as recycling their bodies.
