Who has seen a Thylacine?
This is me working on a 'pantomime horse' style Thylacine that the beautiful Anna and i made for Winter Solstice in the Year of the Dog ( the Thylacine being a large Marsupial Carnivore, the closest thing to a 'dog' on offer in the native Tasmanian fauna department...) This one turned out to be a walking lantern, lighted up by a 12 volt flouro tube in it's belly- we called her Phyllis the Philosophical Thylacine.
Many of the 'recent' sightings of possible Thylacines ( not the puppet kind) have been reported around our town ,St. Marys- this is a mystical shot of St. Marys presiding landscape feature, St. Patricks Head- a Thylacine's dream, open dry schlerophyl forest with abundant native wildlife and the when the conditions are right, sound of the booming sea from the east...


This is Phyllis having a rest (legless as you can see!) in the Gallery at Story Street Studios, an ex auto-electricians garage in St. Marys which i had hoped to reconfigure as an Artspace and Youth Annexe- that's my girl Penelope sitting there on the floor with the Mermaid's head ( she does have a body, it was just elsewhere at the time...makes you wonder?!!) Penelope is the only one in the picture with all of her appendages!( yes, she does have a pair of tights on her head- we aren't sure why but she has always preferred to wear a pair of pants on her head from the time she was a baby- something else to wonder about?)