Shauna Richardson crochets life-sized taxidermied animals - "crochetdermy". Because she can and because no one else thought of it first. Read more at Dazed Digital.
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This is hilarious. The deer's head is just way too much....I'd love to have it on my wall....very, very, very cool.
Coolio!
Louise Weaver has been making crocheted animals over taxidermy forms since 2001. I guess that's the trouble with being from the Antipodes: no one knows about you outside of Australasia! :P
http://www.darrenknightgallery.com/artists/weaver/otherwork/07.htm
I can't find Shauna's biography on her site but her body of work doesn't appear to go as far back.
Patricia, everyone knows that time runs backwards for people on the upside-down part of the planet. ;) Seriously, thanks for the link! I had never heard of Louise Weaver, it's true.