Monster taxidermy

Biography & artist statement of Sarina Brewer, rogue taxidermy sculptor and art movement cofounder.

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Sometimes even bad taxidermy can be fun, as long as you’re not the one paying for it. As we showed in our list of 15 taxidermy fails that deserve a refund, a botched mount can occasionally be downright hilarious. Sometimes, however, you don’t want the thing anywhere in your house, and especially not at night. While not …

Two heads are better than one.

In a cramped apartment in East New York, the artist Takeshi Yamada lives among his strange creations.

So I took my sketch from last week of the deer with crazy eyes and sculpted it into a wall-mounted trophy head. It's about 6" tall. the end <> <> <>

A pig-bird, a bat-fawn, a cat-dog? These are not fantasy – or rather they are, but they have been made reality by taxidermist and sculptor Thomas Grünfeld. His surreal specimens are influenced by wolperfinger folk tales, German stories of anthropomorphic animals who impart moral lessons through their shenanigans. His animals represent a dichotomy not only […]