Jazmine Miles Long
Sing
Taxidermy, photography
2021
Jazmine Miles Long is a freelance Taxidermist, Artist and Educator based in Hastings UK creating taxidermy for both the gallery and museum context, straddling the realms of art, science and education. Only working with animals that have died from natural causes and promoting ethical practice.
In 2015 Jazmine won the Sculptural Intervention for the Notice Nature Gallery at Derby Museum & Art Gallery. Her work A Study of Two Song Thrushes. Understanding Life Through Death is on permanent display.
In 2016 her solo exhibition at the Horniman Museum & Gardens ‘Memorial. A Tribute to Taxidermy’ focused upon the lack of status taxidermy often has within a collection despite its importance to science and its ability to engage visitors.
Jazmine has lectured for UCL, The Open University, British Art Network, Tate, Towner Art Gallery, Two Temple Place, Guildhall art gallery, NatSCA, SPNHC, Cambridge University Museums and Reading University among others.
Jazmine works closely with museums to create ethically sourced bespoke taxidermy for exhibitions and education for institutions including The Wellcome Trust, NHM London, National Museum of Ireland, UCL, UCLA, Brighton & Hove Museums, Manchester Museum and many more.
Jazmine has run children and adult workshops for The Horniman Museum & Gardens, The Booth Museum of Natural History, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and The De La Warr Pavilion. In 2019 she wrote about her career journey for the Crafts Council’s teaching resource to inspire young people.
In 2021 Jazmine was awarded an Arts Council England grant to explore and develop stable, ethical and sustainable alternative materials for use within taxidermy manufacture.
In 2018 Jazmine became a mother and somehow continued to progress in her her career and create work as an artist.
