Debbie Walker Tremlett

FOX

25 x 25 cm oil on canvas 2014

Beautiful Vermin

Artists look at the relationship between humans and nature focusing on the paradoxical love that some of us have for bunnies, foxes and animals that don’t belong here in Australia. How do we fit in and what we do we allow to coexist? Artists from WA and beyond respond to the love/hate relationship we have with these cute critters and feathered friends, pets and pests. We adore them despite the fact that they are extremely detrimental to our environment, or we despise them but can’t help but be seduced by their plumage, pelt or intelligence.

Artists include Indra Geidans, Philip Ward-Dickson, Therese Howard, Debbie Walker Tremlett, Eva Fernández, Olga Cironis (all WA), Yvette Watt (TAS), Rona Green (VIC), Emily Valentine (NSW), Franck Gohier, Chayni Henry, Iwana Ken and Tjanpi Desert Weavers (NT, SA and WA)