Simon Wilson Taxidermy
Simon Wilson is a taxidermist based in the UK, he has been in the trade most of his life after he did his first taxidermy in his fathers shed in the garden of his family home at just 9 years-old.
Simon has gone on to become one the best in the world sporting an amazing collection of specimens in his studio including many lions, polar bears, birds, jaguars, monkeys and list lists goes on.
No only does Simon make beautiful taxidermy he also makes animal animatronics creating moving taxidermy for TV shows.
Simon has worked with many famous faces including make an Ostridge taxidermy for the Spice Girls where it had a mirror attached to it's bottom and was placed in the toilet at one of their celeb full party's.
Simon has worked for Alexandra McQueen, Cher, Renee Zellweger, Louisa Zissman and the list goes on and it's completely understandable why the celebs flock to him for their taxidermy.
Simon has also worked in the film industry, training animals for films, his film credits list is a long as a stuffed giraffe and we will get on to that soon.
When Simon was training animals he would aften have them live with him in his home and often had Penguins, Kinkajous and other animals in the family home.
Simon is an extremely fascinating man and we could talk to him for days leaning all about his fantastic and crazy life.
Some of the films and shows Simon has worked on over the years include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the James Bond films, Harry Potter films, EastEnders where he trained Wellard the dog.
Simon studio is literally bursting at the seems as you can see some of his work in the snap about.
One of Simon's most famous designs is a giraffe what is floating in the air from balloons. Simon creates many different animals what can be suspended in the and it looks like they are floating.
Simon Wilson and That Little Museum
Simon has been the most amazing person to us at That Little Museum, from inviting us down to his studio to see all his fantastic work to all the incredible bits he's donated to us, we are so grateful to him.
In March 2024, Simon started teaching Nicole Williams our museum manager how to taxidermy by practicing on a female meerkat what will eventually feature at That Little Museum along with a freeze dried baby meerkat on the side.
Simon showed us exactly how the wonder world of taxidermy is performed from skinning, tanning, making the armature and then stuffing.
Nearly all of our taxidermy specimens have been from Simon and he really is the best in the business and you know you are getting the highest quality and cruelty free pieces of art.
Specimens we own that have came from Simon including birds, skulls, animal skins, claws, some frozen animals for wet specimens.
Simon has played a massive part in all the work we do at That Little Museum along with all our other supporters who have helped us in different ways over the years.
Feel free to check out Simon's work in the images above, by checking out his website and of course give his social media accounts a follow.
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Don't forget to have a look at our specimens to see what we have in our collection.