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Unique images of Australia's Flora and Fauna
Wildspace is…
a non-profit mixed-media art project that launched for the first time at Melbourne’s Federation Square on March 20 2009; it’s continuing aim is to bring art and urban wildlife into a particular connection, its purpose to alter, over time and through the universal language of art, prevailing attitudes and practices facing native animals living on the edge of our existence, displaced and put under survival pressure in cities, suburbs and along our shorelines.
Art is a language we all understand. The artists profiled in Wildspace ‘09 share a belief in the power of art to bring about positive change and all exhibit a strong bond, expressed through individual and diverse artistic imaginations, with the animals they represent.
The animal images displayed in the inaugural Wildspace 09 exhibition are recognizably portraits of somebodies who matter and have a rightful place alongside humanity in this wild and challenging continent we all inhabit.
Rheya Linden, Animal Active!
WILDSPACE 2009 - 'WINNER'
― Mark Hayward ―
‘Only way home’ – C type print
WILDSPACE 2009 - 'HONOURABLE MENTION'
As an acknowledgement of outstanding achievement in raising awareness of the plight of Australian wildlife through art.
― Lee-Anne Shepherd―
Photography
'80-gram orphan' • 'Hand-raised orphan' • 'Orphan-vehicle strike' • 'Who’s the devil?”
WILDSPACE 2009 - 'PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD'
Decided by voting guests at the Wildspace launch
― Ian McNair ―
‘Birds need a new home’ – dammar varnish on canvas
SHORT FILM ENTRY
― Tracy Baron ―
Short film
“Feathers, Fur and Scales: A Backyard Tail”
View this short film on YOUTUBE
WILDSPACE ARTISTS WEBPAGES
Brett Clifton – www.brettclifton.com
Lisa Anderson – www.lisaanderson.com.au • www.shinyshinyworld.com
Lizzie Cogley – www.ozwildart.com
Stella Reid & Wildhaven – web.me.com/stellareid/Wildhaven
Tamara Kenneally – tamarakenneally.redbubble.com
Ray Drew – www.raydrew.net • kangaroolives.com
Wildspace wishes to thank:
Judges:
James Makin, art consultant, auctioneer and valuer in contemporary Australian art, director of James Makin Gallery (Armadale),newly opened James Makin Gallery (Collingwood) and founder of Port Jackson Press, a publishing and distributing company for limited edition fine art prints.
Karina Lamb, formerly of the Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne.
Launch Speakers:
Phillip Wollen, OAM, an inspirational speaker and supporter of over 400 humanitarian projects for children, animals and the environment in 40 countries building schools, shelters, sanctuaries, orphanages, clinics, ambulances, bio gas plants and hospitals. His most unusual project is Kindness House in inner-city Melbourne, a 40,000 sq feet building used by 300+ individual activists and diverse NGOs covering animal rights, the environment, human health, refugees, the arts, climate change, the forests and the oceans.
Rod Quantock, Australian comedian and champion for all animals and their habitat.
Sue Pennicuik, MLC, Victorian Greens Upper House Senator and long time animal rights defender. Sue spoke about Wildspace in the Victorian Senate following our 2009 launch, thus putting the significance of the exhibition as a showcase for the plight of urban wildlife on the public record.
Our grateful thanks to:
Without their generous sponsorship and enthusiastic support Wildspace may never have eventuated.
Sponsors: Animal Active is unfunded and volunteer-based.
For all information and details, contact:
Rheya Linden, Campaign Director
Suite 18/288 Brunswick St Fitzroy Vic Australia 3065
Post Office Box 4029 Parkville Vic Australia 3052
Phone: +61 3 9380 2252 Mobile: 0408 666 987
Email: animalactive@iinet.net.au Web: www.animalactive.org
exposing and challenging animal neglect, exploitation, abuse