MIA-JANE HARRIS

Illustrator/Sculptor/Taxidermist

 

 

Mortality fascinates Harris due to her death during birth, and the Erbs Palsy she was left with created her love of the abnormal. Harris's artwork challenges the fear that our disappearance after life is inevitable and that the cycle of death is entirely out of our control.

 

 

“We die, we decay, we disappear.”

 

 

With her preservation of creatures she stops these beings from reaching decay and moves them on to a second cycle after the life cycle is complete - one as a living creature, and then one as an art object. Her use of antique materials aims to give a second life in the same way. The idea that an essence of the deceased/disused can be captured and moved on to a second existence. During the process of Harris's art she is resurrecting them in to this new era.

 

 

 

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