Stephanie Fuller
Deal, Kent
I am a professional artist and have been exhibiting in Art Galleries, Museums and Art Fairs around the world for 35 years.
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Australia
Around the world among News media, Koala Bears have become the metaphor for the non human effects of Climate change.
I was so pleased to learn that four of the Koalas in my painting are alive, having been rescued by @akaw_hospital in Adelaide.
Sadly the other koala known as Lewis was euthanised when it was decided his burns were too serious and he was in too much pain.
It’s so nice to find that I have at least 2 koalas in my painting who have survived. So many have died from their injuries once rescued and treated.
At the start of 2020 around the world among News media, Koalas became the metaphor for the non human effects of Climate change. "Koalas have also been listed as one of the top 10 animals to be listed as endangered by climate change, as the eucalyptus remaining to the animals has lowered in nutritional value due to higher CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. They are difficult animals to monitor, as in different regions throughout Australia their numbers are not necessarily dropping.... One alarming, but potentially very important, aspect of the study highlighted how higher temperatures and extreme weather are risky to koala safety. "Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires. 'That's what has to change. Now." Greta Thunberg
Of course now as the year progresses, a lot has changed. Humans have stopped moving around and pollution and CO2 emissions are reducing.
I will continue to do paintings about the effects of the fires in Australia. In February I finished the Large painting Australia with Koalas and bushfire, and I will continue to work on another painting of people on the beach with their animals sheltering from the fires that are burning their houses at the edge of the sand.
I am interested in creating genre scenes with wildlife and climate change as the subject. Bringing together historical art references to a modern phenomenon. Genre paintings often had a moral tale and and underlying sense of doom for at least one of the characters.
I realise this last paragraph sounds very clinical. That’s because it’s so painful, and obviously so, I don’t have the words. It’s all in the painting.
- Subject Matter: Climate Change
- Created: February 07, 2020
- Collections: 2020 Vision, Climate Change, Current Avaliable Paintings
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