Taxidermy with a twist: Artist takes stuffing dead animals in new direction

Artist Polly Morgan's work is taxidermy with a twist.

Instead of a mounted stag's head or wide-eyed owl under a glass dome, her creations include a robin that appears to have got stuck while flying through a pane of glass, a dead sparrow prostate prostrate on a copy of the New Testament and a magpie perched on a Bakelite telephone.

Her first solo exhibition, which opened yesterday, challenges our perceptions of death and nature and teeters on the edge of macabre.



Morgan, a former bar manager, whose customers include Kate Moss, had an informal apprenticeship with a master taxidermist in Edinburgh.

The Exquisite Corpse is at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, London.

You can see more of Polly's work here.