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The Verge of Vale
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Gallery: Solo Exhibition
Artists involved:
Tania Mason
‘THE VERGE OF VALE’ is an exhibition concerned with the depletion of birds within our skies! It is study of not only of Australia’s bird population but a study of what climate change and new species to foreign environments are doing to our world of varies specie’s and the environment they live in!The exhibition features signature monochromatic black drawings focused on the themes of flight and falling, of birds in motion, fleeing human entrapment and subjugation. Ironically, these are birds introduced by man to foreign environments, and having thrived and sought freedom, are being culled by the very protagonists who have placed them there. Asking questions such as the morality of hunting culture – are they right to cull birds that have reached destructive population proportions or are these the moral and environmental implications man faces of the (un) natural extension of a species? One would naturally presume that the average death of bird is dependant on humans! Well yes , but it is not so black and white it has layers of grey!Via research a general understanding from ornithologis expressed that the varying facts in why the bird numbers are dropping dramatically was not just mankind heading out with his loaded gun, off to hunt and shoot these cute little creatures! It is the centuries long process of humans introducing non-native species to remote and sensitive environments that are also adding to there downfall.The work completed for the show ‘On the edge of earth and sky’ has expressions of clean dusty movement’s on paper, these signature black and white drawings emulate and discuss the situation of falling birds from our skies.Contextually, the show will be enhanced by an installation featuring projections of flight. Transferred upon fallen discarded paper feathers that make us aware of their plight creating a ghostly illusion, the motion of things past or perhaps extinct.In all I hope to convey to the viewer that we live on a very special ball called earth. Were we have the responsibility as individuals to become aware of what and how we affect not only our fellow man but the little creatures that balance our existence, believe it or not!
Artists involved:
Tania Mason
‘THE VERGE OF VALE’ is an exhibition concerned with the depletion of birds within our skies! It is study of not only of Australia’s bird population but a study of what climate change and new species to foreign environments are doing to our world of varies specie’s and the environment they live in!The exhibition features signature monochromatic black drawings focused on the themes of flight and falling, of birds in motion, fleeing human entrapment and subjugation. Ironically, these are birds introduced by man to foreign environments, and having thrived and sought freedom, are being culled by the very protagonists who have placed them there. Asking questions such as the morality of hunting culture – are they right to cull birds that have reached destructive population proportions or are these the moral and environmental implications man faces of the (un) natural extension of a species? One would naturally presume that the average death of bird is dependant on humans! Well yes , but it is not so black and white it has layers of grey!Via research a general understanding from ornithologis expressed that the varying facts in why the bird numbers are dropping dramatically was not just mankind heading out with his loaded gun, off to hunt and shoot these cute little creatures! It is the centuries long process of humans introducing non-native species to remote and sensitive environments that are also adding to there downfall.The work completed for the show ‘On the edge of earth and sky’ has expressions of clean dusty movement’s on paper, these signature black and white drawings emulate and discuss the situation of falling birds from our skies.Contextually, the show will be enhanced by an installation featuring projections of flight. Transferred upon fallen discarded paper feathers that make us aware of their plight creating a ghostly illusion, the motion of things past or perhaps extinct.In all I hope to convey to the viewer that we live on a very special ball called earth. Were we have the responsibility as individuals to become aware of what and how we affect not only our fellow man but the little creatures that balance our existence, believe it or not!