The Count Dracula by Wilfred Pritchard, Taxidermy, glass, textile, 60 × 50 × 28 cm, Unique, signed

Wilfred Pritchard brings wit and macabre imagination to his use of taxidermy. In The Count Dracula, he transforms the skeleton of a bird into a theatrical figure. The delicate bones stand upright, cloaked in a flowing cape that instantly evokes the iconic vampire. Fragility collides with menace: a harmless bird becomes a parody of the most famous predator in Gothic fiction.

This sculpture highlights Pritchard’s ongoing fascination with mortality, humor, and cultural myth. He blends natural remains with popular imagery, showing how costume and narrative can reshape our understanding of death. The glass enclosure protects the fragile frame while also recalling coffins and museum vitrines, giving the piece a strange mix of reverence and satire.

Pritchard refuses to let taxidermy remain in the realm of natural history. Instead, he pushes it into contemporary art, turning skeletal forms into characters that feel at once comic and haunting. The Count Dracula by Wilfred Pritchard stages death as spectacle, part relic, part puppet, part parody. The work asks us to laugh, but also to notice the unease beneath the laughter.