Year of the Bird
22 February - 7 April 2013
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia
‘Year
of the Bird’ (YOTB), is a group exhibition exploring the prevalence of
bird imagery in contemporary art and features the work of Marian Drew, Kate Foster (UK), Emma Van Leest, Pamela See, Vanessa
Barbay, Trevor Weekes, Helen Wright, David Hampton and the curators, Helen Hopcroft
and Caelli Jo Brooker.
Thematically the exhibition
explores themes of nature versus culture, wildlife as elegy, representations of non-human animals, and birds as potent
signifiers of both human and environmental issues.