drawings of dead stuff

Stack of modern books and magazine with minimalist cover design on leather chair

project overview

Historical taxidermy is full of hilarious, deeply weird misinterpretations: carcasses dragged across the globe, handed to Victorian taxidermists who had never seen the living creatures, and stuffed into uncanny, glassy-eyed postures. Drawings of Dead Stuff From Museums is an art book designed to liberate these creatures from their clinical, lifeless limbo. Utilizing vibrant color palettes, expressive mark-making, the project blasts through rigid museum displays to give these animals back their spirit, and personality—metaphorically shattering the glass cases to let them breathe again. Each book was accompaied with a limitied edition print.

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Jason Lockyer