Description
Photomontage screenprint, acrylic on Fabriano Rosaspina printmaking paper 285gsm, 50 x 70 cm.
It is rare to find photographs of extinct species in the wild. This image was taken of the New Zealand Whekau in its nest – a cavity under a limestone boulder at Raincliff Station South Canterbury, 1909, by brothers Cuthbert and Oliver Parr.
The image includes the names of NZ’S native predators; some extinct, others in the firing line with the agrochemical conservation project Predator Free NZ 2050. Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are sold without restriction in hardware stores in NZ, and even supermarkets in Australia. Public sales were banned in United States (2013), Canada (2013) and the European Union (2018), to protect avian predators from poisoning.
This was made in Birmingham UK, at Birmingham Printmakers studio.
Edition of 6. (4 available).
