Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka
2020 Pencil on Stonehenge 250gsm paper 95 x 62cm unframed / 120 x 80cm framed
$7,500 (framed)
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'Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka’ reimagines a historical portrait of an extinct Australian bird. Surviving in captivity until 1851, the parakeet perches, a losing player. The black and white chess board may refer not only to a game, to race, to colonial floorcloths, to finance, to alternations of good and bad.
Anna Glynn
Eurotipodes - Colonial Capsize
2022
Photomontage on 310gsm cotton rag
No. 1 in edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs
38 x 50cm / 57 x 64cm framed
In ‘Eurotipodes - Colonial Capsize’ a semitransparent horse hangs upside down, merged with a kangaroo in a red colonial landscape. The diaphanous layered landscape reimagines colonial paintings from the Mitchell Library, referencing time, ecological and cultural change. Two iconic creatures are joined. In this work Glynn is reflecting on what is an ‘Australian’ landscape?
Anna Glynn
Evening Shadows, Backwater of the Murray, South Australia, 1880
Digital photomontage on archival cotton rag paper
No. 1 in edition of 7 plus 2 artist’s proofs
76 x 56cm
Anna Glynn
Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka
2020
Pencil and watercolour on Stonehenge 250gsm paper
95 x 62cm unframed / 120 x 80cm framed
'Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka’ reimagines a historical portrait of an extinct Norfolk Island Kaka, surviving in captivity until 1851. The parakeet perches, a losing player.
The black and white chess board expresses the ‘game’ of survival.