Kate MccGwire @ All Visual Arts

December 13, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

The gallery which gave us taxidermy for the summer is now presenting its audience with feathers for the winter. Six months ago All Visual Arts gave us the preserved animal remains from the Serengeti of Polly Morgan. Now, we are shown nature from closer to home, the beguiling sculptures of Kate MccGwire constructed out of […]

Polly Morgan @ All Visual Arts

June 14, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Polly Morgan first came to my attention with her entry ‘Resurrection’ in the big egg hunt. Morgan had suspended a young chick inside a clear egg, the chick hung from a balloon, which was in place of the yolk. She described this as being like a giant lung, lifting the body gracefully to heaven. Now […]