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Adam Morrigan

28th August -
1st September

An artist who scraped a fox and hare off a road, skinned them and then displayed the squashed animals in a frame is charging £35,000 for his unusual artwork.
There is definitely an initial adverse reaction when people see my work, but it strikes a chord and people see the beauty, and it communicates something personal to them,' he said.

Adam Morrigan - father to three vegetarian children –- even has a roadkill hotline for people to call when they spot a flattened animal on the roadside.

Adam Morrigan, from Horsley, Gloucestershire, has a "roadkill hotline" for people to call when they spot a flattened animal on the roadside.
The father-of-three then sets off to collect the unfortunate four-legged road crash victim and whisks the body away to his workshop.
He then dashes off to collect the unfortunate road-crash victim and whisks the body away to his workshop where he skins it ... and sometimes eats the meat for dinner.

In the past, he has feasted on badgers, foxes, squirrels and hares.

He said of one piece which features a dead hare and fox held in a frame made out of man-made fibre: 'I skinned them both, ate the hare but not the fox meat – it's not good – and turned them into leather.'

The 38-year-old, of Horsley in Gloucestershire, admitted the hefty price tag was more about trying to provoke a response than attract an actual buyer.'We live in such a pre-packaged world with environmentally damaging processes and it's important to identify that,' said the leather-work teacher.

thanks to Metro, The Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Apex for bringing Adam to the nations attention

 

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