Colonial Hybrid: Raper and Parrot
2017 Ink, watercolour & pencil on Arches paper 31 x 23 cm / 43 x 37 cm framed This hybrid portrait clad in a colonial wedding dress from the Armidale region, is inspired by a 1789 painting by George Raper from the First Fleet Collection, Natural History Museum, London. Imagine arriving to a land full of almost impossible and unimaginable flora and fauna!
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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
Coat of Arms framed under Museum Perspex (99% UV & 99% reflection control)
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.