Tag Archives: taxidermy
The monstrous and yet strangely adorable, and then simultaneously unnerving and appealing taxidermies of Welsh artist Adele Morse, who hasn’t looked back since her ‘Stoned Fox’ (top pic) went viral in Russia a few years ago.
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Two sculptures entitled ‘Bite It’ and ‘Pink Eye’ (for obvious reasons) by Canadian designer Clem Chen.
The carved out seats – augmented with plastic cast taxidermy moulds and epoxy putty – were made for the ‘Saddle Up!’ show at Vancouver’s Hot Wet City Art Gallery where donated bike seats were modified and reinterpreted by various artists.
New Zealand artist Karley Feaver transforms ‘ethically sourced’ birds who have died of natural causes into bling-ass deceased avian fashionistas accessorised with mohawks, ponytails, dreads and gold paint.
Of the 2013 project, entitled Becoming Otherwise, she sez:
“I am interested in the scientific, intellectual and aesthetic reasons behind the re-creation of the animal. I am exploring how each one could exist in a domestic setting by adapting to their surroundings. Through this, my investigations of the animals have developed by morphing animals and other various objects into newly formed creations”.
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“Untitled” by Arlene McPadden, winner of the Model Niland Residency Award at the 2013 RDS Student Art Awards currently exhibiting at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Full gallery here
(Pic: Oisín Kane)
At The Natural History Museum, Merrion Street, Dublin
(Thanks Nick Moran)
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Photographer Diane Dodd’s pictures of a trapper’s pickup in a Savannah Georgia parking lot, adorned with the pelts and stuffed carcasses of his prey (including an obligatory bullfrog sucking on a bottle of Jack Daniels)
A widow, paying her last respects to her husband, invites a team of funeral directors to an apartment filled with dead things.
A 2011 short from Supinfocom Arles students Paulin Cointot, Dorianne Fibleuil, Antoine Robert and Maud Sertour.