
Jewellery making classes with Bethamy Linton at Robertson Park Art Studio, West Perth
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Mallee Fowl, icon series, work in progress. Hand cut titanium, fine silver, digital print on paper. Bethamy Linton 2018
Rare and Vanishing Australian Birds
The bird’s you’ve seen making an appearance on my Facebook and Instagram pages in recent months are part of a body of work I am developing for exhibition at Gallow’s Gallery, Mosman Park W.A., in November.
These pieces are related to a larger body of work focusing on native flora and fauna which I started working on after my move to hills, around 2013. In making, I imagine the work as a future relic, a time capsule… a three dimensional memory of our fragile ecology preserved in metal and somehow honoured through craft. These birds are an extension of that, kind of my imaginings of icons for a distopian world. The images (re-produced with permission from the artist) are by Peter Slater, a bird enthusiast and artist who authored a book named Rare and Vanishing Australian Birds (amongst others) published in 1978 from which the images are taken.