One Cup Hand Held Gallery Melbourne

Sweeties
The souvenir teaspoon collected while traveling aims to capture a memory of a specific time and locale describing a dialogue between personal history and connection to place. Here, preserved on a spoon is an endangered animal representing the connection and identity to land and reminding us of the non-sweet truth of loss.

Gilbert’s Potoroo (above) found only in a nature reserve in Western Australia and is critically endangered for there are only 30 remaining.

Sweetkeys (above and below) presents three endangered Australian marsupials:
The Mahogany Glider was lost for 100 years with the rediscovery in 1989. They are found in North Queensland with about 80% of their potential habitat cleared for agriculture and forestry purposes, what remains is owned privately only leaving a 7% of suitable habitat found in existing national parks.
The famous Tasmanian Devil since the 1990s has spreading within the species a devastating facial cancer, DFTD, reducing their numbers by 65-95%.
The Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat is the biggest of the wombats and once widespread are found only in conservation in Epping Forest National Park, Queensland. In 1995 there were only 80 counted.

Many of our animals, birds and wildlife are disappearing including the iconic Koala which is listed as endangered but unfortunately not openly recognized as so by the mainstream populace and government. Heart breaking.