MEET THE ARTIST

Before you start your adventure - fill in the blanks by using the words in the list below to learn about the artist.

Troy Emery

o PATTERNS o DECORATIVE o REPRESENT o FASHION o SURFACES o COLOUR o ARTIST o OBJECTS

Troy Emery is a soft sculpture* _______________ who likes to create ‘fake taxidermy’* animals out of colourful materials and _______________. Troy uses many different materials including pom-poms to decorate* his animals and make them look interesting. His soft sculptures* _______________ the different ways we view animals, including as _______________ objects.

Using shape and _______________ , Troy Emery’s animals make us think about how we relate to real animals. By making them colourful and bright, we start to see them as _______________ _______________ and not as living creatures. This is exactly what Troy wants us to think about.

Some of the animals are in scary or aggressive poses, but their soft and vibrant* _______________ attract us to them. This is the same as in the wild - if you saw a tiger and its nice soft fur, you might be tempted to give it a cuddle, but we know this is usually a bad idea!