Picture this: you’re in a gallery. The afternoon sunshine is filtering through the windows onto the ceilings, casting a soft glow on bronze statues of figurines dancing, and on colourful oil paintings of portraits and landscapes. The walls are filled with paintings like these – oils, acrylics, watercolours, people, objects and panoramas. And then, at the very end of the room, on a wall all alone, a tiger gazes mournfully out of the canvas, its striped back transitioning into a barcode.
This is wildlife artivism.
A branch of wildlife art, and a form of creative conservation, wildlife artivism ...
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