Black Forest Horse

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.

2020 Pencil, watercolour and acrylic on Stonehenge 250gsm paper 210 x 127cm / 220.5 x 137cm framed 'Extinction Coat of Arms' creates a new national symbol. Glynn references and reimagines Australian historical images. All the Australian fauna depicted in this work, are extinct. The design reinterprets our coat of arms. An intense red for the kangaroo and emu flanking the national plant, golden wattle.

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.