Angela Singer is another artist whose work involves the use of taxidermy. Though instead of creating taxidermy to fulfill a design, she uses recycled taxidermy in company with many different types of mixed media. Her work comments on the violation of animals and the struggle to 'repair' the wrongdoings by preserving the animals body.
Steven Connor wrote in Modern Painters of March, 2009:
"Some artists, like Angela Singer, deliberately use taxidermy to open up wounds and exhibit the damage done to animals in effecting their apparent rescue from time. Here, the visible wounding and careless repair of the animals is part of the effort to make restitution for a larger violation. But the 'questioning entities' that taxidermic art brings about my have questions to ask of that art as well as of the traditions from which that art may claim or feign to distance itself. In no other arena of art, perhaps, do violation and restitution lie so close to each other."
Her work questions the relationship between humans and animals and the long thought notion that people are superior to other species. She uses a process she calls "de-taxidermy" to communicate her animal activism in shocking and sometimes gruesome artwork.
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