Pigeon Feather Art by Kate MccGwire

By Queuebot in Animals & Pets, Art, Pictures on May 2, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Sluice (2009) by Kate MccGwire

Bits of bones and pigeon feathers may be garbage to you and me, but not to artist Kate MccGwire. The London-based artist used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works of art.

In this interview with Kate, Don’t Panic Magazine asks: why pigeon feathers?

I am currently using pigeon feathers as they come from a bird that is generally reviled – regarded as vermin and referred to as ‘rats with wings’. I started to collect pigeon feathers that moulted from the birds in a shed next to my studio – I realised that they were actually very beautiful.

Link – via dontpaniconline

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by JJA.

Tags: feather, Kate MccGwire, pigeon

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Kalel
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Health concerns may cause a flap here, so many being down on feathers.
Alex
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Art that doesn’t ruffle anyone’s feathers isn’t worth clucking about.
Kaz
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Parasites galore!
Evilbeagle
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 am
Interesting, but yeah, a bit of a health hazard when you consider that pigeons are filthy animals.
emmiline valentine
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 am
humans are filthy animals. pigeons just happen to live in heavily human populated areas and clean up the trash we leave behind.
Evilbeagle
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
That doesn’t make pigeons any less filthy.
kate MccGwire
May 9th, 2009 at 2:13 am
These feathers are from racing pigeons that are beautifully kept and cared for – all of them are frozen to ensure that all bug are removed – No health hazard here!
Kate
Evilbeagle
May 10th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Good thing they are, kate because I would totally feel the need to disinfect myself otherwise if I got near something like that.
Mrpigeon
Dec 10th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
excuse me Evilbeagle who do you think you are blaming the pigeon its people like who have no one else to blame for what the humans did to this planet i have four word for you; suck it up bitch
Mrpigeon
Dec 10th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
go kate i love your art you are so creative.
geegee
Apr 29th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
i love it.. wish u had more pictures of it..
and dont worry about any health hazards, u cant get anything from touching those feathers. however u can get sick from touching people, specially the evilbeagle … so hatefull.
pigeons dont transmitted diseaes hmmmmm, not a lot, matter of fact i havent heard of any diseases that are transmitted thry pigeons.
your dog beagle on the other hand can transmit way more than any bird could. and guess what u live with the dog, sleep with the dog, he licks your face, climbs all over furniture, pissing in the house, and other biz u know what..
let me not get into the parasites u can get from just touching the dog, and not to mention letting him lick your face..
so leave the pigeons alone , specially if u dont know what you talking about.
this is art..
and please before you embaras yourself do some research about wild life that shares the cities with us

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