Fauna: Polly Morgan, Sometimes on a Sunday

Polly Morgan uses taxidermy and animals as the source material for her sculptures and prints. Morgan named her 2010 exhibition (Psychopomps), containing four suspended taxidermy sculptures, after the mythical beings said to guide the human soul to the underworld after death. In Classical mythology these guides were often represented as domesticated animals (dogs, horses) or wild birds. In her print Sometimes on a Sunday, 2014 she presents the viewer with a twisting snake, which was always a symbol of Satan and evil in historic still life paintings.

Polly Morgan, Sometimes on a Sunday, 2014, Gravure etching on Hahnemühle bright white 300 gsm, with hand watercolour finish