Angela Singer
Angela Singer (born 1966 in Essex) is an English artist and animal rights activist who now lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She studied at University of Auckland.
In the early/mid 90s Singer worked with the animal rights group Animal Liberation Victoria, Australia (ALV), antivivisection campaign. She works primarily with discarded old hunting trophy taxidermy, recycling it into new sculptural forms that explore the human/animal divide. Like other artists such as Sue Coe, she is concerned with the ethics of using live animals in art. Singer refuses to work with living animals or to have living creatures harmed or killed for her art. She is not related to Peter Singer, an animal rights activist and philosopher.
Selected bibliography
Book containing discussion of work:
- Killing Animals. Eds. The Animal Studies Group (2006) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. [ISBN 0-252-03050-8 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-07290-1 (pbk.)]
- Animal Nature. Ed. J. Strayer (2005) Pittsburgh: Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University. [ISBN 0-9772053-0-4]
See also
Reviews and articles
- Modern Painters The Right Stuff article
- Antennae Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, UK. Issue 7, 2008. Death of the Animal. Angela Singer: Animal Rights and Wrongs. Giovanni Aloi
- "Animality: Cultural Constructions of the Animal" Blue Oyster Art Gallery and Project Space
- New Zealand Listener Second Nature review
- New Zealand Listener review Animality
- Art New Zealand review Insides Outsides
External links
- Angela Singer website
- The Independent. Fantasy fashion fit for a princess, The Enchanted Palace exhibition, Kensington Palace, London
- The Idea of the Animal 2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival
- The Criminal Animal
- Animal Nature
Angela Singer