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urban bird communities
His most recent book is Theo Schoon: A biography (Massey University Press
and critic whose contribution to art in New Zealand is immense
acknowledging their origins in the Regionalist movement paintings of the mid 20th century and the influence of artists such as Rita Angus
Print size: 630 x 500mm including 8mm border
Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print - wholesale Science and Nature urban bird communitiesBill Hammond (born 1947) studied art in Christchurch in the 1960s. He became a full time painter in 1981. In 1989 Hammonds work changed radically after a trip to the subantarctic Auckland Islands, where he encountered what he described as a paradise for birds. He learned about the nineteenth century trade in native birds that had decimated so many species. In his new paintings, hybrid bird human figures became a metaphor for all threatened creatures.
