"Taxidermist Polly Morgan, described by Banksy as 'Britain's hottest bird stuffer', is one of Britain's most high profile young artists.Her macabre and unsettling works, including a coffin bursting with open-mouthed chicks and a rat asleep in a champagne glass, have won her celebrity fans including Kate Moss and considerable media coverage.In the second of this series of artist profiles, this film offers an intimate peek at the strange and wonderful art of Polly Morgan and asks what her reputation reveals about the relationship between art and celebrity."
I found this documentary so interesting! I had no knowledge what so ever of Taxidermist's so to be able to get an insight of how much work goes into it was riveting.
In the documentary we see that her studio that she works in is actually in her home, this proves to be very useful but also bad as she never knows when to stop working with it being right in her home. She gets most of her dead animals through the post, which I found very weird but I liked how all the animals died of natural causes so none where actually harmed or killed for her art pieces.
In the documentary we see that her studio that she works in is actually in her home, this proves to be very useful but also bad as she never knows when to stop working with it being right in her home. She gets most of her dead animals through the post, which I found very weird but I liked how all the animals died of natural causes so none where actually harmed or killed for her art pieces.
Although many people in my class found her work to be 'disgusting' I found it extremely beautiful, the way she lays the dead animals out and covers them in a glass dome I find beautiful. I also love how a small chandelier is put into most of her art pieces, here is some of her work:
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=polly+morgan+taxidermy
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