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The Overwintering ProjectI am very excited to announce the launch of my new initiative, The Overwintering Project!
Artists, print workshops, galleries and communities in Australia and New Zealand are invited to submit Expressions of Interest to join this long-term project that will link artists with their local migratory shorebird habitat and with each other. Its focus is the preciousness of this land we call home and the environment that connects us. To receive a full Project Description please email me at overwinteringproject@gmail.com |
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A website is currently being developed, but in the meantime you can keep up to date with developments on the project's Facebook page. This is a project designed for all! The full project description can be read here.
The Flyway Print Exchange crosses the Tasman!
Auckland-based Flyway Print Exchange artist Celia Walker has organised this wonderful joint exhibition of the Flyway Print Exchange along with the new exhibition that she has curated, From the Rivers to the Shore - a collaborative print project bringing together artists from the North and South Islands, connecting through bird migrations to local experiences of environment and ecology.
From the Rivers to the Shore brings together over 40 artists from New Zealand’s far north to the deep south, as well as several from Australia, to create artworks that reflect upon shorebird migrations between our regions. Each artist was invited to produce a work that engaged with their local habitat, birdlife, or the broader themes of migration and connection. The diversity of work produced for the exhibition reflects a range of printmaking practices and cultural traditions.
The shifting stones of the braided river network in the South Island form a breeding environment for a wealth of unique birds, such as New Zealand’s endemic wrybill, with the curious sideways kink to its bill, the critically endangered black stilt as well as its cousin the pied stilt, also flocks of terns and the black-billed gull. The shell banks and tidal reaches of northern harbours play host to many of these species over winter, causing constant fluctuations in populations and feeding areas. Flocks of wrybill have been observed at Little Shoal Bay, within a stone’s throw of Auckland’s Harbour Bridge, long way geographically and metaphorically from their nesting grounds in Canterbury high country. The tiny banded dotterel/double banded plover regularly makes its way from remote southern rivers and pasture lands to the shorelines and estuaries of south-western Australia, and one time vagrant visitors from Australia such as the royal spoonbill and the pied stilt, have become part of our breeding shorebird populations. All of these birds face multiple threats in both their breeding grounds and overwintering locations, it is hoped that this exhibition will increase awareness and highlight local opportunities to help keep these birds safe.
The shifting stones of the braided river network in the South Island form a breeding environment for a wealth of unique birds, such as New Zealand’s endemic wrybill, with the curious sideways kink to its bill, the critically endangered black stilt as well as its cousin the pied stilt, also flocks of terns and the black-billed gull. The shell banks and tidal reaches of northern harbours play host to many of these species over winter, causing constant fluctuations in populations and feeding areas. Flocks of wrybill have been observed at Little Shoal Bay, within a stone’s throw of Auckland’s Harbour Bridge, long way geographically and metaphorically from their nesting grounds in Canterbury high country. The tiny banded dotterel/double banded plover regularly makes its way from remote southern rivers and pasture lands to the shorelines and estuaries of south-western Australia, and one time vagrant visitors from Australia such as the royal spoonbill and the pied stilt, have become part of our breeding shorebird populations. All of these birds face multiple threats in both their breeding grounds and overwintering locations, it is hoped that this exhibition will increase awareness and highlight local opportunities to help keep these birds safe.
