Evidence of a catastrophe: The weather reports of James Guppy

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Trevor "Turbo" Brown and company
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Christine Morrow

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Entangled looking: The crisis of the animal
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Barbara Creed

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Madison Bycroft's mollusc worlds
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Matt Barlow

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The Lock-Up
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From god‑head to bin chook: Ibis in the Australian cultural imagination
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Paul Allatson and Andrea Connor

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Surreal conjunctions in sartorial contexts: A testing ground for human-animal relations
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Ann Finegan

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In the beginning there was the worm: Animal voices beyond the verbal
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Tessa Laird

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Becoming-horse: Jenny Watson, Art Orienté Objet and Berlinde De Bruyckere
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Georgina Downey

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Heading for trouble: Non‑human futures in recent art
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Susan Ballard

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The cloud/explosion paintings of James Guppy's The Weather Report series of 2006 were made as a response to 9/11.

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