Flag, 2024
Polly Morgan (b.1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Self-taught with no formal education in art, she works in taxidermy, concrete and polyurethane. She is interested in creating deceptions, with sculptural facsimiles made from painted casts and skin, as a way of exploring false narratives in our increasingly polarised and digitised society.
Camouflage, mimicry and subterfuge are referenced in snakeskin-textured sculptures that explore the politicisation of bodily adornments, such as acrylic fingernails, drawing parallels between military, cultural and primal warfare.
Morgan draws on material gleaned from social media and the beauty industry, using the decorative hides of snakes and the trompe l’oeil designs in nail artistry, to question where reality ends and fiction starts.
