NOAH SCHNEIDER
Noah Schneider
Bull At Rest
2025, bronze, sterling silver, 310 x 220 × 130 mm
Photography by Chris Bowes.
ARTIST STATEMENT
NOAH SCHNEIDER
“I am writing to go back to the time, at the rest stop in Virginia, when you stared, horror-struck at the taxidermy buck hung over the soda machine by the restrooms, its antlers shadowing your face. In the car, you kept shaking your head. “I don’t understand why they would do that. Can’t they see it’s a corpse? A corpse should go away, not get stuck forever like that. I think now of that buck, how you stared into its black glass eyes and saw your reflection, your whole body, warped in that lifeless mirror. How it was not the grotesque mounting of a decapitated animal that shook you — but that the taxidermy embodied a death that won’t finish, a death that keeps dying as we walk past it to relieve ourselves”.
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
PROFILE
Noah is a jeweller and metal sculpture artist whose practice centres on connection, bodily autonomy and storytelling. Inspired by organic materials and the natural world, his work explores how we come to understand our surroundings, considering the ways in which meaning is constructed and embedded within our environments. By creating jewellery as sites of connection and memory, Noah reflects on how we relate to our bodies and to one another, positioning the body as both subject and site, a medium through which personal and collective narratives intersect and take form.
