Article: Entombed in porcelain, her squashed hedgehogs live to fight another day

The British are great animal lovers. They treasure their collections of miniature ornaments; their mantelpieces are lined with china badgers, owls, foxes and weasels. Sadly the roads are all too often decorated with nothing but the carcasses of the real-life versions.

Peggy Atherton, a 27-year-old protest artist, feels that the number of "road-kills" flies in the face of any suggestion that we are fond of our furry friends. To ram home her point she turns the dead animals into art.

Her "ghostly ornaments" which are "so much more beautiful", even when dead, than more-usual china equivalents will form part of the forthcoming anti-car exhibition to be held at Newbury, Berkshire.

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