Threatened species
Art student Madison Kelly wants people to pay more attention to threatened species.
Madison Kelly's passion for ecology and animal studies led her to capturing the plight of endangered animals in a series of works painted in her final year of her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Dunedin School of Art. Madison's paintings give us a way of envisioning our relationships with animals and the change she wants to see in the world as we consider what our response to the future of these threatened species will be
Madison's aim was to integrate concepts from her passion and bring them into a visual field. She explores the relationship between the urban/domesticated person and these very threatened species which require attention:
"They absolutely demand it, but a lot of the time it takes a sideline because they're not in our own space. I would hope that when someone sees my work that they feel like they're given a space to think."
Madison wants to make pieces that make it harder to ignore plight of animals. She hopes that:
"seeing something in bigger scale and in this context of a gallery as well, where you're meant to give them visual attention, that will be a lasting kind of visual attention that might permeate elsewhere."