Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade

Some works from ‘THE BIOGRAPHY OF A LIE’ (see archive) now on show in an exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta:

The latest model for egret / aigrette, a piece of bird body jewellery, is a snowy egret, shot in 1909 by an Arthur Elliot. At that time, snowy egret populations were being decimated for the plumage trade.

New work by Foster and Patchett – ‘stuffed bird atached’ – contextualises two exhibits (the head of a bird of paradise, and a bird on a hat).

Click on the link to download the full version of ‘stuffed bird atached’: Download: ‘stuffed bird atached’ PDF

View the online catalogue of the whole exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta compiled by Merle Patchett: www.fashioningfeathers.com