Artist takes the fight to coal mining with a flock of birds

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Queensland artist Jill Sampson recruits hundreds of artists, writers and musicians to depict birds.

Bimblebox 153 Birds is currently showing at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum.

"Bimblebox 153 Birds starts a conversation about environmental impact, [about what we] as humans are doing in our environment, but it's a very gentle way of doing it," she said. "This is our next generation coming through, if we can get schools in to have a look and start thinking more widely, then people start to have that conversation, which is a bit hard in regional centres when it's about industry and the environment."Researcher Andrew Nicholson studied the influence of art advocacy on environmental behaviour.

His study found more than half of the participants who answered the survey within two months of seeing the exhibition indicated future, environmentally supportive intentions linked to their art experience.

 

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This is the biggest threat to native birds, after cats which seem popular with artistic types for some strange reason...

Is the artist / long term unemployed person aware of how many birds die from getting minced by a wind turbines? Yet to see many dead birds at the bottom of a coal mine.

I love artist activism.

Before all the birds are dead from man made global geoengineering ?

Average Wage for an Artist: $48,000 Average wage for a Miner: $106,000

So what about painting a picture of all the wedge tail eagles being killed by wind turbines.?

Please save the Climate Youth ,,,,, before its too late, thank you.

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