Receiver, 2009
24x8x7cm
Bakelite Telephone Receiver
+ 7 Taxidermy Quail chick Heads
I saw a piece about her on The Culture Show a while ago, maybe over a year ago and read an article in the Sunday Mail about her today on my lunch break. I think her work is fascinating and again in it resonates this kind of strange visual representation of something literal that subtly lures me in; it makes me envisage the sayings: "What are you yittering/twittering on about?" - or "It soudns like a hen hut in the background"
- - Morgan's work is certainly evolving, whether as a conscious reaction to fears of faddishness or not. The decorative, dollhouse-scale tableaux are being joined by the bolder, more abstract and more defiantly sculptural pieces, such as the giant spore-like orbs of wings that her assistants are prepping for on the other side of the room. Her newer work is perhaps less a subversion of the conventions of taxidermy — the glass domes, the life-like poses — and more an exploration of animals as a raw material.
"Maybe it will become more of a conventional medium, like using clay or oil paint," she ponders. There are certainly no immediate plans to abandon fur and feathers. "I don't know of many artists who use taxidermy pretty much exclusively as I do, and I just haven't exhausted it yet. - -
Excerpt from the Guiradian's: Observer On Sunday.
Its interesting to note she thinks of animals corpses now as a raw materials its an intriguing notion to explore... Can't help thinking there may be some use for that otter we have in our freezer after-all...
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