Extinction Game - Eastern Hare Wallaby
2020 acrylic on canvas 123 x 153 cm 'Extinction Game - Eastern Hare Wallaby' responds to devastation and renewal in Glynn’s local fire-ravaged landscape. Influenced by colonial images, the extinct Eastern Hare Wallaby sits, a losing player upon a black and white chess board. The last specimen of the Eastern Hare Wallaby was ‘collected’ in 1889.
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Finalist 2020 Basil Sellars Art Prize
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.
Anna Glynn
Extinction Coat of Arms
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.
Anna Glynn
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.