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Unfortunately I don’t have any info on what this is.

Unfortunately I don’t have any info on what this is.

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Polly Morgan’s Still Birth is a series of preserved chicks, suspended by colored balloons kept with in bell jars.

Polly Morgan’s Still Birth is a series of preserved chicks, suspended by colored balloons kept with in bell jars.

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Kelly McCallum graduated from the Goldsmithing department at the Royal Collage of Art in summer, 2006: a jeweller’s interest in scale and attention to detail is apparent in both her wearable objects and her sculptural pieces. Her work is influenced by both story-telling and natural history, employing Victorian taxidermy as well as insects, precious metals and other treasures from her personal collection of curiosities.

Kelly McCallum graduated from the Goldsmithing department at the Royal Collage of Art in summer, 2006: a jeweller’s interest in scale and attention to detail is apparent in both her wearable objects and her sculptural pieces. Her work is influenced by both story-telling and natural history, employing Victorian taxidermy as well as insects, precious metals and other treasures from her personal collection of curiosities.

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Morbid Accessories by Julia Deville.

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‘Celebrated and self-trained, Tampa Bay-based taxidermy artist Juan Cabana has been delighting and disturbing audiences with his strange, lifeless life-forms since 2001. Mermaids are his special fascination, but he presents many variations on this theme. Among the other sinister sea monsters conceived in his workshop: a Cyclops known as ‘Omi’; a massive mammalian-jawed monstrosity, ’Stranded’; a skull-faced manfish called ‘Nereus’; and a winged sea faerie, ‘Oceanic Pixy’.’ Continue reading…

‘Celebrated and self-trained, Tampa Bay-based taxidermy artist Juan Cabana has been delighting and disturbing audiences with his strange, lifeless life-forms since 2001. Mermaids are his special fascination, but he presents many variations on this theme. Among the other sinister sea monsters conceived in his workshop: a Cyclops known as ‘Omi’; a massive mammalian-jawed monstrosity, ’Stranded’; a skull-faced manfish called ‘Nereus’; and a winged sea faerie, ‘Oceanic Pixy’.’ Continue reading…

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Walter Potter (1835-1918) brought whimsy to taxidermy by anthropomorphizing his subjects in everyday (human) activities.

A bizarre collection of stuffed animals that was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago has been reassembled for a one-off exhibition. The eccentric works of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, in which stuffed animals mimic human life, were sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.

Walter Potter (1835-1918) brought whimsy to taxidermy by anthropomorphizing his subjects in everyday (human) activities.

A bizarre collection of stuffed animals that was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago has been reassembled for a one-off exhibition. The eccentric works of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, in which stuffed animals mimic human life, were sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.

(Source: telegraph.co.uk)

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Shauna Richardson UK based Crochetdermy artist specialising in life-size animal sculpture in wool. ‘She uses crochet to sculpt realistic life-size animals - uncanny taxidermy-like forms. Crochetdermy combines themes such as objects, collecting, craft and realism and experiments with accessibility and audience.’

Shauna Richardson UK based Crochetdermy artist specialising in life-size animal sculpture in wool. ‘She uses crochet to sculpt realistic life-size animals - uncanny taxidermy-like forms. Crochetdermy combines themes such as objects, collecting, craft and realism and experiments with accessibility and audience.’

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Taxidermy pieces/sculptures by Les Deux Garçons. Love the fun child-like party accessories. I would love to have a birthday party decorated with these pieces all over.

Taxidermy pieces/sculptures by Les Deux Garçons. Love the fun child-like party accessories. I would love to have a birthday party decorated with these pieces all over.

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Colette Hosmer is a contemporary naturalist who is celebrated internationally for her outdoor sculptures and installation work with organic materials.

Colette Hosmer is a contemporary naturalist who is celebrated internationally for her outdoor sculptures and installation work with organic materials.

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Wolf taxidermy sculpture and peeking sculpture installation by Nicholas Galanin.

Wolf taxidermy sculpture and peeking sculpture installation by Nicholas Galanin.

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Taxidermy by Enrique Gomez de Molina.

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Thomas Grünfeld’s anomalous creations are some of the strangest and most surreal of contemporary taxidermy. The creatures from his appropriately titled Misfit series are composed of bits and pieces of animals, all flawlessly sewn together to create entirely new species: a doberman pincher with a calf’s head, a beast combining monkey and parrot, another creature, part mule, part giraffe, part ostrich.

Thomas Grünfeld’s anomalous creations are some of the strangest and most surreal of contemporary taxidermy. The creatures from his appropriately titled Misfit series are composed of bits and pieces of animals, all flawlessly sewn together to create entirely new species: a doberman pincher with a calf’s head, a beast combining monkey and parrot, another creature, part mule, part giraffe, part ostrich.

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Peter Gronquist’s exhibition “The Evolution Will Be Fabulous.” Animals with horns/antlers of weapons and fashion label logos.

Peter Gronquist’s exhibition “The Evolution Will Be Fabulous.” Animals with horns/antlers of weapons and fashion label logos.

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Pekka Jylha is a versatile sculptor, best known for his monumental work for President Urho Kekkonen in Helsinki. Much of his work consists of a series of sculptures made of unconventional materials and subjects – pigs or rabbits, mechanical or electric devices and candles – that lend a touch of humor to his work. He also utilizes traditional materials and elements from natural phenomena, such as light, water, and fire to explore and defy laws of nature. Yet his works, however voluminous they are, rarely leave a too-heavy impression. ‘ (via Volta)

Pekka Jylha is a versatile sculptor, best known for his monumental work for President Urho Kekkonen in Helsinki. Much of his work consists of a series of sculptures made of unconventional materials and subjects – pigs or rabbits, mechanical or electric devices and candles – that lend a touch of humor to his work. He also utilizes traditional materials and elements from natural phenomena, such as light, water, and fire to explore and defy laws of nature. Yet his works, however voluminous they are, rarely leave a too-heavy impression. ‘ (via Volta)

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Claire Morgan suspends plant and animal life with precise detail to create a moment of action frozen in time.

For me, creating seemingly solid structures or forms from thousands of individually suspended elements has a direct relation with my experience of these forces. There is a sense of fragility and a lack of solidity that carries through all the sculptures. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.
Animals, birds and insects have been present in my recent sculptures, and I use suspense to create something akin to freeze frames. In some works, animals might appear to rest, fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms. In other works, insects appear to fly in static formations. The evidence of gravity - or lack of it - inherent in these scenarios is what brings them to life, or death.

Claire Morgan suspends plant and animal life with precise detail to create a moment of action frozen in time.

For me, creating seemingly solid structures or forms from thousands of individually suspended elements has a direct relation with my experience of these forces. There is a sense of fragility and a lack of solidity that carries through all the sculptures. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

Animals, birds and insects have been present in my recent sculptures, and I use suspense to create something akin to freeze frames. In some works, animals might appear to rest, fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms. In other works, insects appear to fly in static formations. The evidence of gravity - or lack of it - inherent in these scenarios is what brings them to life, or death.

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