The very last Xmas island Pipistrelle bat was heard on 25 August 2009 with no further ‘sightings’ (hearings) despite intensive efforts to locate the species. At 3 g it was/is the smallest bat in Australia. Writing in January 2009 Dr Lindy Lumsden noted: “Surveys undertaken in the mid-1980s found it to be common and widespread …
Evolutionary Thinking & The Struggle To Exist Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 10 April – 20 September 2009 A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas and is informed by the …
This was from a flicker group doing Photoshop tennis with the subject matter Charles Darwin. A version of this game eventually made it onto the cover of a book. Note Beagle, finch, Lamarck’s giraffe, beards on iguanas, tree of life sketch coming out of bible. Also subtle images on the cloak. I’ve always liked …
A chimerical portrait of Darwin — one aspect of his thoughts translated into a visual representation via animals.
One portrait of Darwin
To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin in 2009 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his pivotal work, “On the Origin of Species”, the SCHIRN is pleased to present the exhibition, “Darwin – Art and the Search for Origins”. Darwin’s revolutionary book and the subsequent heated debates about origins not only …