Extinction: A Love Letter

Across four distinct practices, extinct and endangered Australian species are gathered into works that feel both memorial and quiet reflections. Through sculpture, printmaking, and painting, historical facts become an emotional presence - asking us to sit with the weight of what has been lost, and what loving this country truly requires.

Some works reimagine extinct animals in unexpected, almost theatrical forms, while others return us to the subtropical rainforests of the Northern Rivers and the legacy of the Big Scrub through highly detailed, traditionally rendered landscapes. Together, the artists form a layered love letter to the natural world , tender, imaginative, and quietly insistent on care.

This exhibition is a love letter to the natural world - created with care, curiosity, and a touch of imagination.

Set on Bundjalung Country, in the Northern Rivers and shaped by the legacy of the Big Scrub, Extinction Love Letter brings together works that honour native animals, flora, landscapes, and ecosystems - some still thriving, others already gone.

Across the exhibition you’ll find highly detailed rainforest and traditional landscape paintings, alongside with more playful and unexpected works that will grab the attention of the young: with one artist reimagining Australia’s extinct animals as functional circus-inspired artworks - inviting younger visitors to engage with ideas of loss, memory, and care through curiosity rather than fear.

This is not an exhibition about blame or alarm. It’s about attention. About noticing what surrounds us, what has shaped this region, and what we choose to pass on: and what we still have the ability to save - through stories, images, and acts of care.

A show for lovers of nature, families, and anyone who feels connected to this place.