Polly Morgan makes her living stuffing animals into bell-jars.
As a trained taxidermist, she creates fantastical, surreal and darkly humorous sculptures out of creatures she finds dead from accidental or natural causes: Birds sleep beneath tiny chandeliers, rats curl up in champagne flutes and Dal۪̉s lobster phone is updated via an upside-down pigeon.
Her first solo show can be seen at Haunch of Venison, London, entitled ‘Psychopomps’ until 25th September 2010.
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