Custom creatures

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If Polly Morgan’s animal corpse art seems macabre, it looks positively mundane next to Serina Brewer’s creations. Her Custom Creatures include many multi-headed inventions like the cat thing shown here. She also does a fine line in carcass art, pickled pets and jewellery made from various extremities, should you be searching for those elusive alligator feet earrings.

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The fantastic art archive

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Polly Morgan, fine art taxidermist
Cryptozoology
Insect Lab
The art of Jessica Joslin
The Museum of Fantastic Specimens

Polly Morgan, fine art taxidermist

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Still Life After Death (fox) (2006).

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Rest a Little in the Lap of Life (2005).

Polly Morgan‘s work is on display at The Exquisite Corpse exhibition, Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, London, until October 19th. (No exhibition website.)

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Cryptozoology
Insect Lab
The art of Jessica Joslin
The Museum of Fantastic Specimens

AVAF at Mao Mag

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New York-based Mao Mag seems to have a predilection for a particular brand of psychedelic imagery if recent issues are anything to go by. Peter Max was on the cover of #8 earlier this year and appeared inside together with a feature on the equally eye-popping work of Kenny Scharf.

For #9 it’s the turn of AVAF aka Assume Vivid Astro Focus, a Brazilian artist also based in NYC whose paintings and installations combine a psychedelic vibrancy with frequent gay themes. The work in the magazine looks considerably more interesting than the show I saw at Tate Liverpool in 2005 which seemed to suffer from bad lighting and being separated from the Summer of Love exhibition it was intended to complement.

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The gay artists archive

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Heinz Edelmann
Verner Panton’s Visiona II

Maximum Silence by Giancarlo Neri

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Not an album cover design by Storm Thorgerson but an artwork of 10,000 lights by Giancarlo Neri which filled the grounds of the Circus Maximus in Rome earlier this week. Neri’s earlier work, The Writer, a huge table and chair, was also shown in Rome as well as appearing on Hampstead Heath in London. What the photo above doesn’t show is the lights gradually changing colour but you can see that via YouTube.

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The art of Yayoi Kusama
Atomix by Nike Savvas