WEAVER 2010.341a-b
July 2010
Louise Weaver's painstakingly crafted sculptures re-imagine taxidermy models in decorative 'skins', or extravagant costumes, created with crochet, appliqué and weaving. This process of fantastic reinvention illustrates Weaver's ongoing interest in the perceived distinction between the artificial and the natural, the ephemeral and the imperishable, the beautiful and the bizarre.
In Phoenix, Indian blue peacock, Weaver amplifies these contrasts to the extreme. The bird, which has already been transformed once into a decorative object via taxidermy, now wears a dazzling technicolour dream. Weaver also points to the sustained human interest in self-transformation.
