Albatross and petrel art! Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature paint in support of the Mouse-Free Marion Project

“Good Friends”.  Displaying Wandering Albatrosses, watercolour by Flávia F. Barreto; after a photograph by Alexis Osborne

For the three months of November 2024 to January 2025 Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds. The Mouse-Free Marion Project collaborated with the collective Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) in a special project entitled “Conservation Campaign for Marion Island”.  ABUN artists were invited to create and submit artworks that the Mouse-Free Marion Project may use to create awareness and for fund raising.  Their chosen subjects were inspired by photographs of Marion Island’s biota, notably its ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels that are threatened by the island’s introduced House Mice.   A total of 43 artworks was submitted, all viewable here.  A selected portfolio follows.

Grey Petrel and chick, gouache by Andrea Siemt, after a photograph by Ben Dilley

Sooty Albatrosses by Joyce Hartmann, after a photograph by Danielle Keys and Stefan Schoombie

White-chinned Petrel, digital art by Peter Shearer, after a photograph by Ben Dilley

Grey-headed Albatross by Lois Davis, after a photograph by Kim Stevens

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“Party time - no rodents invited”. Polychrome pencils, by Di Roberts

With thanks to the Mouse-Free Marion Project and Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 18 March 2025