Richard Lewer: The Birds
With so much going on in the world, it's easy to lose sight of what's happening in our own backyards. Richard Lewer’s bird studies highlight a selection of threatened, vulnerable and endangered birds from Australia and New Zealand. Despite their precarious existence, there is something reassuring about Lewer's paintings — somehow, his subjects seem determined to carry on with their dayto-day lives in spite of everything going on around them.
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Richard Lewer Helmeted honeyeater, 2020 acrylic on steel 38.5 x 48.5 cm
SEPTEMBER 2020
AUD $5,500
The helmeted honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. It is Victoria's only endemic bird, and was adopted as one of the state's official symbols.
