Polly Morgan
Overview
LOSING HAND, 2023
Polly Morgan uses taxidermy and painted cast facsimiles in provocative and unsettling ways to probe the disparity between surface and reality. Like serried shields or spears, her snake-textured augmented sprues, spine-like columns on which acrylic nails are packaged before application, represent beauty both as signal and armour. These works are from a series of hand-painted sculptures that query the politicisation of bodily adornments and draw parallels between military, cultural and primal warfare.
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