Dead Alive: Julia DeVille's Exquisite Taxidermy
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By Emily Kropp
in Culture Features
on July 26, 2010
In her latest exhibit, Melbourne-based artist Julia DeVille serves up strange and beautiful creatures in "Night's Plutonian Shore."
Julia DeVille's fascination with life and death began at an early age. She dressed up in her grandmother's fox-fur stoles, and gutted and cleaned fish with her father. As her fascination continued to grow, in 2002 she alligned with a talented taxidermist named Rudi Mineur and began the delicate and loving process of turning recently deceased creatures into works of art. She has an incredible jewelry line called Disce Mori, which uses taxidermied mice, birds, bones and skulls to create brooches, rings, necklaces, and more. As a sign of her dedication to the art form that is taxidermy, DeVille has donated her body to Germany's Institute for Plastination, and will be preserved for exhibition after her death. Her latest solo exhibition, "Night's Plutonian Shore" opens at the Sophie Gannon Gallery in Victoria, Australia on July 28th, and runs until August 21st.
What do you think of Julia DeVille's taxidermy?
1 Comment
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BrenndonKnox • almost 2 years ago
despite a few of these animals being BABIES, the pieces are exquisite and appear to be very well done. i'm loving the fawn.