About Mashka’s Marvellous Menagerie

Artist Kerry Eggleton creates vibrant and characterful anthropomorphic animals and screen prints them meticulously by hand. Anthropomorphism has ancient roots as a literary device in storytelling, and also in art. Most cultures have traditional fables with anthropomorphised animals, which can stand and talk like humans, as characters. Intrigued by these hybrid forms which resonate throughout history and across cultures; Kerry has created contemporary characters in the style of a Victorian engraving, harking back to the golden age of the British circus. Collectively these form Mashka's Marvellous Menagerie. Read their story