Virtual Fine Art Placement | Lauren McArthur

Initial Ideas

The world of online Placements. I will be using this space to document the thoughts and work that I make in the time I’m doing my placement. There are some negative aspects to working online, if I was able to go to the Booth museum I would have a wide range of taxidermy specimens to…

The Process of Taxidermy

The term taxidermy comes from the Greek taxis ‘arrangement’ derma ‘skin’, which is what the process is all about. The skin of an animal is cleaned and preserved and then stretched onto a ‘body-shaped’ frame, usually modelled on the animal itself. The ‘mounted’ animal can then be adjusted to provide a reproduction of the creature…

The Booth Museum Website

To start off the project I decided to do a quick overview of the booth museums website. The main area of the website I will be visiting will ne the displays section. in this section there is a variety of categories to explore, Birds, Mammals, Insects, Geology& Fossils, Marine life, The Victorian Study ,Discovery Lab…

Virtual Fine Art Placement Proposal

Radio talk on women in taxidermy

BBC 4 radio talk about women taxidermists. How there a serge of woman now interested in taxidermy but some of the men in the field are unhappy about. Looking back on taxidermy throughout time its been a male dominated field of work. Often men who hunted would do their own taxidermy hunting also being a…

Jasmine Miles-long

Jasmine miles- long is a taxidermy artist that studied a BA in sculpture at the university of Brighton. Jazmine creates videos, campaigns and online content for museums. Jazmine creates taxidermy for both the gallery and museum context, and so her work sits between the realms of art and science. Jazmine’s love of natural history has…

The Booth Museum and Edward Booth

The Booth Museum was founded in 1874 by naturalist and collector Edward Thomas Booth. The Victorians were passionate about natural history and Edward Booth’s particular interest was ornithology, the study of birds. During his lifetime he collected a huge variety of stuffed British birds and was a pioneer of the environmental type of display called…

First search | Booth museum

Starting at the booth museum website/ displays – temporary exhibitions https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/booth/exhibitions-displays/ Mammals and insect displays- preserved mammals Cheetah- done by Jazmin mills long The Victorian study Victorian taxidermy google image search Article about Victorian taxidermy – Inside the incredible world of Victorian taxidermy: Stuffed kittens dressed in wedding gowns and cigar-smoking squirrels photographed for new…