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Julia Deville

Julia deVille (born 1982) is an artist, jeweller and taxidermist who only uses subjects in her taxidermy that have died of natural causes.She is an advocate for animal rights, and began including taxidermy in her art work in 2002,combining it with her jewellery making practice to produce small sculptures and installations. DeVille’s interest in memento mori traditions of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian mourning jewellery inform her pieces.