American Goshawk, 2021
The use of Victorian wallpaper motifs references an era when Europe unleashed colonisation across the globe and, with it, the brutal domination of faraway places, creatures and cultures. As ‘discoveries’ were displaced to Europe and the Americas, they fuelled aviary collection and display as part of an impulse to collect and catalogue the natural world.
Galah Cockatoo, 2012
Though his name is synonymous with bird conservation today, Audubon himself was responsible for the deaths of thousands of birds – all sacrificed in the name of art and knowledge. There were voices that advocated a different way of being with and representing birds.
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