My take on taxidermy….Oh and things in domes.
Posted on October 30th, 2015 by Jane Fairhurst
‘Dressed to Kill’ 2014
18 x 20 x 6cm Magpie skull with rhamphotheca, Magpie feet, nazars (evil eye beads), felt, wadding, doll’s hat
‘Conspirators’ 2014
18 x 18 x 6 cm (each bird), pigeon skulls and feet, nazars (evil eye beads), felt, wadding, plastic bird’s egg
Batboys visiting the taxidermy collection at the Chateau in Laval, Brittany. 2008
‘Small Mythologies for the New Era’ Exhibition 2013
VAC Gallery, Northwich, Cheshire
‘Irminsul’ (Tree of Life) 2012 – 64 x 36x 36 cm
64 x 35 x 35 cm
L-R, ‘Conspirators’ – 28 x 23 x 23 cm, ‘Guardian’ – 38 x 21 x 21 cm and ‘Gathering’ – 32 x 24 x 24 cm
L-R, ‘New Faces’ – 37 x 24 x 24 cm ‘Female Deity with Child’ 33 x 24 x 24 cm
‘ Female Deity with Child’ 2015 33 x 24 x 24 cm
Mixed media with nazar beads, hand of Fatima, small female deity figures