POLLY MORGAN
POLLY MORGAN
     
Artist POLLY MORGAN
Title Receiver, 2009
Dimension 24x8x7cm
Edition N/A
Description Bakelite telephone receiver + 7 taxidermy quail chicks heads

Polly Morgan is British and lives and works in London. She was born in 1980 and began working as an artist in October 2005. A love of animals and desire to preserve them led her to learn taxidermy, under the tutelage of taxidermist Georger Jamieson. Since then she has gravitated towards making still lives with the animal as subject.  Her intention has never been to mimic the natural habitats of animals, as they are traditionally displayed, but to place them in less expected scenery. The scale and settings are often unnatural, but the animals are never anthropomorphised. Seeing them out of place encourages us to look at them as if for the first time; the rat sheds its association with horror and disease and can be rightly viewed as a beautiful animal.
BARTER
Artist
POLLY MORGAN
Title
Receiver, 2009
24x8x7cm
Bakelite telephone receiver + 7 taxidermy quail chicks heads
Barter History
-Tattoo your name on my ass/ fifty hours work for charity of your choice
-One month free renting in a really cool flat in Paris (9th District)
-A horse skull
-A five day stay in Seville with a private tour of it's Roman ruins, Arab Cathederals
-A print by Roni Horn called 'To Nest'.
-A pair of swarovski y-fronts.
-A short film about the inspiration behind your work, or a day in the life
-A bucket of live mice (min 50) and mold makingservices (silicone or for metal castings)
-2 buckets of live mice (please)
-A piece of your art appearing on the set of a feature film
-A solid oak set of drawers designed by you in the style of Jean Michel Frank.
-My lovely parrot

Winning Bid
A piece of my jewellery by Solange Azagury Partridge. It is a gold and purple stone ring

LINKS TO ARTIST
  Website
  www.pollymorgan.co.uk