Stuffed rabbits with turkey wings pulled from London art show

Stuffed dead rabbits fitted with turkey wings have been pulled from a celebration of art in London, Ont.

Kery Maddison is a third-year fine art student at Fanshawe College in London, where she and classmates had been preparing for a year-end exhibition at the Arts Project in downtown London.

That exhibition opened April 11 and closes Saturday. But Maddison's work wasn't among the art on display.

She contributed a collection of stuffed rabbits with turkey wings attached to their backs, transforming them into mythical-like forms.

Maddison said they were "a celebration of life ... with an angelic feel."

Maddison claims the director for the ARTS Project told her he had received some complaints about her work and that he decided to pull them from the exhibition to avoid trouble.

"I didn't realize there would be that many people displaced by it. I can understand, some people have different feelings about it, to each their own.

The rabbits were on display in the window of the ARTS Project building in London. They were moved downstairs originally, and then removed from the exhibit all together.

"I think it was more so the fact they were in a public space, in the window as a opposed to the gallery," Maddison said.

Maddison said she's a little disappointed by the decision. She has other pieces of work in the exhibition.