Kelly Gare

My name is Kelly Gare. I am a fine year Fine Art student at the University of Derby.

My work hybridises taxidermic media with modelled clay and mixed media adornments, such as jewellery. 

Currently, my work is focussed around magpies, their associated mythology and the prejudices against them. They exhibit many social behaviours that can be directly attributed to humans, and in this sense my work is somewhat anthropomorphic, largely depicting narrative scenes that can be simultaneously viewed as "like humans", due to the similarity in behaviour, and "Other" from a species viewpoint.