Tag: Taxidermy

• Nothingness, Acceptance, Resurrection: Creating a Second Life

  

  By Mia-Jane Harris My work delves into the curious, fascinatingly odd and morbidly beautiful. I make intriguing juxtapositions between the gorgeous and the macabre, aiming to intrigue the viewer and pull them in to my world with strange objects and morbid curios to manipulate their emotions on the subject of mortality – life, death & resurrection.…

  Death and the Maiden

  20/08/2018

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  Art, Artist, Artwork, Creation, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Mia-Jane Harris, Taxidermy

• Iris Schieferstein’s Death and The Maiden

  

  Gabriella Daris met German sculptor and taxidermy artist, Iris Schieferstein, at her studio—43km outside of Berlin, by the Langer See (Long Lake)— where she encountered giant freezers filled with carcases— major raw materials for the artist’s work.

  Death and the Maiden

  14/10/2017

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  Art, Artist, Dead Maidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Feminine, Gabriella Daris, Iris Schieferstein, Sculpture, Taxidermy

• Is Taxidermy a “Girl Thing”?

  I get called a lot of things by taxidermy enthusiasts, animal-rights activists, and the media. I’m apparently an instructor, an expert, a hipster, an animal hater, a sicko, a stuffer…but one of the most puzzling things I have been called recently is a “woman taxidermist” and I get asked the same question time and time…

  Death and the Maiden

  26/10/2015

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  Anatomy, Animals, Art, Creativity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Gender Roles, History, Natural History, Practice, Taxidermy, Technique, Workshops