Based upon the photograph: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima from WW2. This painting was exhibited for the NorthArt Paper show, it forms part of my Battelines series and depicts pest animals staking their claim to the land with a sprig of the invasive gorse branch.
the Predator-free series
The displacement of our native wildlife, for agriculture and suburban sprawl, means that the need for a home for each of us (animal as well as human) is becoming more intensified. Left unchecked and with enough resources, populations grow to fill a space and if they continue to expand, those resources become depleted, scarce and the lives of the inhabitants come under threat
exhibit
2018 • Drawings • (group exhibition)
Northart’s highly anticipated annual Drawing and Works on Paper show brings together pieces by some of the gallery's most accomplished and senior artists, including:
Robert Ellis, John Nicol, Garry Currin, Simon McIntyre, James Lawrence, Linsey Kirk, Frank van Schaik, Frances Atkins, Alistair Nisbet-Smith, Ross Ritchie, Karl Amundsen, Barry Ross Smith, John Oxborough, Mark Whippy, Sharon Cowley Vickers,
Rosemary Theunissen - curated by Wendy Harsant.
Raising the Flag 
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