Artist Statement

Michelle Molinari is a painter, printmaker and taxidermy artist. Her work thematically addresses both the concepts of death and animal beauty through the physical nature of the taxidermic medium and depicted subject matter of her painted works. Molinari’s work seeks to investigate the cultures of longing that impel the urge to preserve something from nature’s inevitable course.

Drawing upon the histories of taxidermic representation and the European still life tradition, Molinari often creates her own taxidermy which generates the inspiration for her still life arrangements. Working from life observation her paintings highlight a beauty and sentimentality that is implicit of the artists own gestural motivations for preserving and memorialising the death of these specimens.

“The process and understanding of taxidermy itself is vital to the developmental process of my work, not only does the act of creating the taxidermy enable me to acquire an internal and empathetic understanding of the animal, it is also just as revealing of the human sentiment to hold something away from death as well as reveal it.”

Michelle Molinari's work is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

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Friday 28 March 2014

Recent Works




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Sunday 23 March 2014

2013 Graduate Exhibition VCA



The Chamber, 2013
Seven taxidermy finches, deep set convex glass, black perspex acrylic, frame



(View from side)



Still as Death III. 2013
Three taxidermy finches, silk twine, copper clasp, convex glass, black perspex acrylic, antique frame



( View from side) 



Still as Death I & II , 2013
taxidermy pigeon, taxidermy rooster, black perspex acrylic, convex glass, antique frame



(View from side)


Still as Death, 2013 Installation



                   
                                                                     
                                                 Fallen, 2013
                             Oil on linen, enamel coated oval frame






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Monday 17 March 2014

2013 Works




               
                   

                                                 
Together, 2013, oil on linen in enamel frame


Encased, 2013, installation

 

                                        Encased, 2013, Oil on linen



Eternal Stillness, 2013, installation
Oil on Linen, enamel frame, taxidermy pigeon, glass dome
Exploration 13, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne




Eternal Stillness, 2013, oil on linen in enamel frame






        Mortality Observed, 2013, LWOO - The Little Window Of Opportunity,                                                   Port Jackson Press, Fitzroy


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Wednesday 5 March 2014

Past Works

                                       
                       Contained/Preserved, 2012, dimensions variable 
              Oil on linen, enamel coated frame, taxidermy budgie, glass dome   



               Contained/Preserved, 2012, installation, including lithographic prints


                                                         
                          Memento mori, 2012, dimensions variable
           Oil on linen, enamel coated frame, three taxidermy finches, glass dome



                                    Mortality Reflected, 2012, installation 

                     

  Reposeful, installation, 2012
Oil on linen, enamel coated frame, taxidermy fox 



Reposeful, 2012


                                                         
                                               Reposeful, 2012




Volpus volpus, 2012
lithographic print, taxidermy fox head mount 





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