Extinction Game – Red-Crowned Parakeet
2020 Pencil and watercolour on Stonehenge 250gsm paper 95 x 62cm unframed / 120 x 80cm framed 'Extinction Game - Red-Crowned Parakeet’ reimagines a historical portrait of an extinct Australian bird. This parrot was endemic to Lord Howe and is extinct since 1870. The black and white chess board may refer to a game, to burnt and unburnt, to race, to colonial floorcloths, to finance (the French escheker), to ‘checkered’ alternations of good and bad.
$7,500 (framed)
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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
Eurotipodes Awaiting – Kangaroo & Sofa
2023
Archival photomontage on cotton rag paper
Edition of 7 plus 2 artist’s proofs
100 x 84cm / 103 x 87cm framed
This work includes references to ‘Sydney Harbour Looking West’, 1848, by Jacob Janssen.
From archives and public collections Glynn digitally captured colonial paintings, furniture, sculptures, flora and fauna. Combining these images with contemporary nature photography, Glynn creates multilayered imagery. A world of fantasia, a place on the cusp of reality and imagination.