The Year of the Bird at Maitland Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Curated by Helen Hopcroft and Caelli Jo Brooker, the exhibition The Year of the Bird features work by Vanessa Barbray, Caelli Jo Brooker, Marian Drew, Kate Foster and Merle Patchett, David Hampton, Helen Hopcroft, Pamela See, Emma van Leest, Trevor Weekes and Helen Wright.
You can see more on the Year of the Bird Exhibition Blog – including an account of by Merle Patchett and myself about “Looking at the Hummingbird Cabinet”
Dr Rod Bennison, CEO of Minding Animals International, will be opening the Year of the Bird exhibition on Saturday 23rd February, 2013.
A catalogue is available.
Earth Matters at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
An exhibition facilitated by Artlink at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
April 2012: Fashioning Feathers at the Royal Alberta Museum
This includes the BIOGRAPHY OF A LIE – body jewellery for birds used in the plumage trade. These works adorn museum specimens in a dedicated cabinet.
New work for the exhibition includes a bookwork made for a new Hummingbird Display where eight specimens rotate to flash their iridescence. I documented responses to the Hummingbird Cabinet in the Natural History Museum in London, for example below.
Click this link for an online catalogue of the whole exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta compiled by Merle Patchett: www.fashioningfeathers.com
BY AIR / PRIORITY
A package just flying to Queensland for the artists’ exhibition accompanying 4th Biennial Australian Animal Studies Conference 2011.
This new work on swallows points towards their arrival as South Africa’s Bird of the Year in Durban, November 2011. In the same month, United Nations Climate Change Conference delegates will be welcomed at the New King Shaka airport, which shares airspace with the swallows landing in their millions on a long-established roost.
View the BioGeoGraphies page here for more information: www.meansealevel.net/by-airpriority-airmail-stickers-on-the-theme-of-intercontinental-travel/
Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade
Some works from ‘THE BIOGRAPHY OF A LIE’ (see archive) now on show in an exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta:
The latest model for egret / aigrette, a piece of bird body jewellery, is a snowy egret, shot in 1909 by an Arthur Elliot. At that time, snowy egret populations were being decimated for the plumage trade.
New work by Foster and Patchett – ‘stuffed bird atached’ – contextualises two exhibits (the head of a bird of paradise, and a bird on a hat).
Click on the link to download the full version of ‘stuffed bird atached’: Download: ‘stuffed bird atached’ PDF
View the online catalogue of the whole exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta compiled by Merle Patchett: www.fashioningfeathers.com