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yeah right, lets have a piece of turd with diamonds or maybe a used condom still filled with semen and make a necklace then call it art.
A dead rat… anyone interested ?

Beware the florid rationale.

Fascinating and repulsive…

thats absolutely exquisite!

I like it when they post sculpture here

Really poor taste.

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This kind of entry makes me feel like this new design-art genre is really doomed. Everyone is suddenly wanting to be ‘artsy’.

wow….who will buy them?

hahahaha….

mmm…i dont like it

GEEZ!!
Am about to vomit!!,
What a mockery of nature!,First we kill them now they are on display with ridiculous “jewelery” on them.
She’s mentally unstable,take her to Psychiatrist Please!!

Can dezeen take it out from this website. I check dezzen all the time, but I don’t want to see this again.

this is sinister and morbid .
but I suppose Dezeen ‘ s job is to show what is around and be impartial .

Personally, I think this is not only tasteless but really obvious and badly resolved. I thought Kelly’s work was interesting back in 2006 but there seems to be a lack of progress here. I hope to see better from her in the future. (By the way, she probably thives on comments like Azeem’s)

sick.eww. i only like the golden pearls

repulsive “design”, i hope you will stop asap!!!

That’s sick

Not very good taxidermy juxtaposed with not very good metal working to produce a not very good result.

Sick mind!

poor

I love to browse the pages of dezeen on my lunch hour but lately guys I think you are getting a bit silly. There is no design here. As a designer I don’t want to be challenged by thought provoking and stomach churning art - I want to see good design bred from intelligence and problem solving.

Did I misinterpret the website name - is it not a Design E-zine?

If you agree, ask Dezeen to include an art section so I can avoid this bulls**t.

Hey! Insane, bad, orrible… London design is death?!

I’m totally with Chris.
This work shows a desperate attempt of someone for attention.
There’s no quality at all. Reflects nothing, thinks nothing, resolves nothing. Furthermore, the final result is crap, the metal is bad worked.

Feel sorry for her.

I think design should make things better and make people feel nice…These works make me so uncomfortable. The designer wants to tell people something? or just want to catch eyes?

LOOOOVVVE IT!!! already when i saw it first time in a design and yewellery shop on Bricklane, London…
Its gorgeous, extravagant, luxurious and keeps reminding me on vanitas symbols of baroque stillifes. The cabalistic, mystic effect is exactly what makes it so interesting! Its inspiring me….

sicko..

This is not aesthetically pleasing or respecting the nature, nothing against taxidermy if it’s done beautifully, love this:

http://www.idiots.nl

Interesting. Concept is there, but rather pointless.

has no-one ever read about duchamp?
You all sound like neanderthals
I like the way that dezeen bleeds into different areas, since when was design merely minimalism?

I wish it were gorgeous, (Its awkward…) I wish it were extravagant, (it’s amatureish…) . I wish it were luxurious (looks cheap….),.

What is the cabalistic, mystic effect? (Looks like it was done in modern London for posting on a Blog.. )

If this is where the Design-Art trend it heading (towards ‘artsy’), Rebecca is right- This field is SCREWED!…

SHE IS Sick! Even just making used condoms as necklaces are much better designs than hers!

Can Animal group do something about it? Shouldn’t we show certain respects to all kind of animals, even they are dead?

The work by Idiots (.nl) is fantastic. Thank you Laura!

It reminds me a bit of Damien Hirst if he were a designer and not a… um… creater of super expensive ironic whatever you call its.

love it!
and love to read all the comments.. means it’s kicking ass, as art has to do!

at least it creates some meanings

i like it:)

this reminds me of the much circulated Banksy quote… “Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

Part of the purpose of Art is to solicit a reaction from the viewer, it has successfully accomplished this feat… with all of the negative and closed minded comments.

I personally don’t enjoy this work but i commend the attempt!

very intense! i’m looking forward to her further development, looks like u can get allot more out of this!

Bizarre…

beautiful freak

love it!!

look at the the eyes of that fox .. he may be dead but he clearly does not enjoy the experience.

making a mockery of dead animals in such a careless way and labelling it ” art” is beyond sick .

i will agree with the most of the comments, bad art, design. I wouldn’t say yes to a couple of those with the insects but most of them show desperation for publicity. We’ve seen similar design approaches on the matter, designers with tendencies to design artifacts with references to death, crime and bereavement but in a much more better and successful way. Freaks as is been called is good to have in design and someone to provoke but here is ridiculously bad made. Back to the workshop to improve it and out to the public eye again i would say.

I feel sick…

I say ‘Wrong’. Maybe it has reached the approach of ‘artsy’ being that it has grasped a feeling; even a negative one at that but if you are going to exploit animal carcasses then I feel it should be done in a more graceful manner; even when approaching the unsavory.

There is the school of thought that Art is supposed to shock and upset our bourgeois complacency and assumptions. With that in mind these pieces succeed. But I believe the rest of that axiom is that that through that upheaval we are presented with an opportunity for a greater revelation. I feel these pieces utterly fail in that regard. Hence are simply shock for shock’s sake. But Art is often the creative “acting out” of inner issues which i think is the case here. A certain proportion of the articles on this website fall into that category. But I agree with F Says: “Dezeen ‘ s job is to show what is around and be impartial.” That of course doesn’t mean the viewer should be.

i’m not a fan of anything dead that’s stuffed to look ‘alive’ … but i think she should be respected as an artist for going where others have not, and for reinventing the ‘art’ of taxidermy - in the least. she has definitely done her job as an artist - which is to provoke and incite debate, repulsion, adulation and conversation.

I didnt even read all this, but look at how much discussion is surrouding these pieces…the artist wins
I personally like the work, at least its pushing limits, which is more than I can say about most design.
Maybe all these desingers that hate is so much should have a look at Damien Hirst.

This is definitely a very poor version of the work done by idiots.nl
What about Damien Hirst?
The work displayed here totally lacks the conceptual and esthetic quality these artists created years ago. Imitation is good when what is being copied (consciously or not) is surpassed… that’s evolution. This is regression.

I agree with M.Elm, but cant help but feel that if this was Hirsts work everyone would be all over it….

oh,my god

In spite of all.. good or bad, right or wrong.. he made us talk about him

not quite sure why any animal rights group would get involved in work that (it clearly states) involves victorian taxidermy..designers it seems should learn to read the accompanying descriptions before commenting…love it or hate it the work achieves what the (female) artist has set out to do which is make the viewer think!…as for the comment about badly made, i am forced to wonder how that conclusion has been formed based on pictures…had the commenter actually seen kelly’s work in person (either at goldsmiths hall, liberty of london or at the saatchi online stand at form) they would realise that it was anything but…whatever we’ve all come to realize the internet is a forum for the uninformed!

The brooch is the most sucessful because it is pure representation. It is also the only item i could see myself purchasing…

I’m sorry, but wasn’t this supposed to be a design magazine? If I wanted to see some idiotic contemporary art jewellery I would go to a contemporary art blog.

Thought provoking and very interesting. I disagree with the majority of opinions here. Art will be art, and this indeed challenges us emotionally, visually, and intellectually. Knee jerk reactions as posted here do indeed show that once again, an artist has splendily done their work.

The jewlery is fascinating juxtuposed with the taxidremy. From a historical scientific context this is new and modern–refreshing in a ghastly odd way.

The world is full of ghastly horriffic and distasteful things….we all have differing opinions on what is art. I love the concepts this artist has the balls to show the world.

I fight for animal rights, I don’t wear fur, and I believe all animals and insects have just as much right as humans to life (I don’t kill bugs).
I also love history, anthropology, and took forensics (the study and science of death) in college. Melding it all together is different and refreshing.

Thank you Dezeen!

Death in its most exquisite expression.

I agree with the majority. The work lacks creative talent, is poorly executed and seems to be done purely for shock value or publicity.
There is so much beauty in animals and insects, dead or alive and not all art needs to be ‘joyful’ but there are more clever and creative ways to display it.

It is really gross but very beautiful and original.

IM GOING TO UNSUBSCRIBE JUST NOW.
YOU, DZEEN, ARE SOOOOO STUPID.
YOU ARE 1.0.
THIS IS A HAS BEEN MARKETING WAY.
BEAUTY AN DEAD……SOOOOO NEW, FLASHING…MMMMM…COOL.

IDIOTS.

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Im sure you are going to remove my reply, because the word ¨IDIOT¨ is more offensive than your offensive images.

Thanks.

Esteban Lucci

UNSUBSCRIBE ME JUST NOW.

It’s got all of you talking about it, mission accomplished I think.
It’s also very beautiful and less repulsive than a lot of people.

Thanks

Andy

Well… before criticising something of being poorly executed, dare I ask: have you seen the work in the flesh? Do I hear a resounding no? I have, and it is exquisitely done. You may dislike Kelly’s work but please do not talk about something you judge from a photo, go see it. I hear the V&A museum is featuring it in its summer 2009 exhibition…

I am forever amazed at how blinkered some “designers” or “creatives” are, aren’t they supposed to be the most open minded and questioning people? For me, Design is about questioning perception, asking questions of the audience. Kelly’s pieces do that. I have seen her work previously, and I admire her work immensely. The audience should be asking themselves why they don’t like the work, and why do they feel like they do when they see it. Are these the feelings that the designer wanted us to feel? Has she accomplished what she intended? From the reaction here, I reckon she has, like Andy says, I see more repulsive things in our society, which seem to be more accomodated by the general populus!
See it in the flesh to appreciate it

I am forever amazed at how blinkered some “designers” or “creatives” are, aren’t they supposed to be the most open minded and questioning people? For me, Design is about questioning perception, asking questions of the audience. Kelly’s pieces do that. I have seen her work previously, and I admire her work immensely. The audience should be asking themselves why they don’t like the work, and why do they feel like they do when they see it. Are these the feelings that the designer wanted us to feel? Has she accomplished what she intended? From the reaction here, I reckon she has, like Andy says, I see more repulsive things in our society, which seem to be more accomodated by the general populus!
See it in the flesh to appreciate it

No doubt, Damien Hirst has a big order pending.