Parrots – A BirdLife Australia Bird Week Exhibition by Angela Robertson-Buchanan

Australia is home to 56 species of parrot. Only five of these are found elsewhere in the world. There are 300 species of parrot worldwide. This exhibition celebrates all things parrots. Each art piece has a conservation story and a fact about the bird featured.

Yeti is a wildlife rescued yellow-tailed black cockatoo. He was hit by a car as baby. Although he has recovered from his injuries he is no longer able to be released back into the wild.
Yeti is a wildlife rescued yellow-tailed black cockatoo. He was hit by a car as baby. Although he has recovered from his injuries he is no longer able to be released back into the wild.

20% of sales will be donated to BirdLife Australia. The exhibition runs alongside National Bird Week – an initiative to get more Australians interested in birds.

Princess Parrot Progression. There are a dozen free flying cheeky Princess parrots at WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo. They are now successfully starting to breed and this series follows the growth of one of their off-spring. Princess parrots live in NT & SA, but are highly nomadic following where the food is. Although popular aviary birds, this parrot is classified as “near threatened” in the wild with only about 5,000 individuals left in the wild.
Princess Parrot Progression. There are a dozen free flying cheeky Princess parrots at WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo. They are now successfully starting to breed and this series follows the growth of one of their off-spring.
Princess parrots live in NT & SA, but are highly nomadic following where the food is.
Although popular aviary birds, this parrot is classified as “near threatened” in the wild
with only about 5,000 individuals left in the wild.

Opening hours

Thursday, Friday 12–6pm
Saturday/Sunday 10am–3pm

Closing drinks
Thursday 24 October, 5–8pm

 

 

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.