2010
Haunch of Venison, London
Hardcover
104 pages
226 × 164 mm
Polly Morgan is a British artist living and working in London. She is self- taught with no formal education in art and rose to attention after learning taxidermy in 2004 when she began to dismantle taxidermy traditions, creating unsettling still lives where the animal was observed in death rather than life. Recent works, making use of her model-making and painting skills, are illusory sculptures that combine taxidermy with cast objects and painted veneers and lie somewhere between figuration and abstraction.
[Royal Society of Sculptors]
Includes texts by Tom Hunt and Anthony Haden-Guest.
