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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