Polly Morgan
A trained taxidermist, Morgan began working as an artist in 2005. Since then she has attracted a multitude of collectors from David Roberts and Anita Zabludowicz to Kate Moss and will cap exhibitions in 2009 at Tunnel 228 and the Lazarides gallery, with upcoming shows with All Visual Arts in October and at Haunch of Venison in London in May 2010. Her work exploits her taxidermy skills in still life arrangements. She plays with conventions of both: the interaction of the wild subjects within the peculiar context of the civilised still life pose; the conceit of the dead animal frozen in a living pose. Inevitable considerations of death and horror run through her subjects, often animals are left in an ambiguous sleep or not just preserved, but arranged, at the point between death and decaying - a period she delights in.
La Petite
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Sculpture
20.7cm x 15.2cm x 8.1cm
Glass box, Wooden base, Wooden matchbox, Taxidermy quail chick, Colours differ as shown in pictures, 25 in edition
A play on the familiar childhood image of a bug in a matchbox, echoed in Morgan’s use of a museum or archival glass case. Here the bug is substituted for a quail chick, whose loose neck makes the box seem ambiguously his bed or coffin. The preservation of this state of recently deceased and the beauty the artist finds in it is here in evidence, the corpse portrait as the prize or secret of a child.
£1,150
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