Endangered – Koala (print)
From an original drawing by Marie-Claire Colyer (Finalist in the 2023 WAMA Awards - Wildlife Art Museum of Australia).
Limited Edition prints are embossed, signed and numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.
Printed on Canson fine art paper (archival, 100% cotton, 210gsm for A4 and A3, 310gsm for A2) using fade-proof archival inks.
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
This piece is a statement highlighting the uniqueness of what could be lost, the koalas stark against the black of oblivion .In creating my Endangered series, I aim to focus awareness on the natural world in crisis. Wildlife art can be a powerful way to create environmental awareness. For it is through connecting with emotion that people act. Despite being such an iconic emblem for Australia, the koala is now listed as Endangered. Through habitat fragmentation and destruction, road mortality and attacks by introduced dogs, we have over the years slowly reduced their numbers. Add to that the koala retrovirus, chlamydia and fires that decimated the remaining population, and we face losing this animal in the wild. I feel compelled to depict these animals that we in our negligence pushed to the knife’s edge of survival. We are culpable, and it is only through our efforts that they can be saved and perhaps restored.