Mama Moo


Stitched plush toys


Aprox 25 cm hight

Seams of Inheritance

This body of work is made from recognizable innocent looking plush animals - lambs, giraffes, tigers - cut open and surgically reassembled into conjoined hybrids. The result is both tender and monstrous: childhood icons turned anatomical curiosities.

I’m interested in the tension between play and pathology, innocence and mutation. Children may still find these figures endearing; adults often see them as grotesque. That split matters. This work explores how taste is inherited, how comfort is constructed, and how fear gets embedded in what we give - or withhold from - children.

Each altered toy becomes a small theatre of legacy, disruption, and uneasy continuity. The stitches stay visible. Wholeness is refused. By reshaping these familiar forms, I question what’s considered “natural,” and how what’s passed down can be un-given, re-formed, made strange again.

It’s a kind of surgical affection - an invitation to look closely at what we carry, and what carries us.