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Artist Bio
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, my passion for the wilds of Africa started at an early age. Some of my earliest memories include waking up for early morning drives in Hwange National Park or sitting for hours at one of the numerous waterholes, to see what came to drink. I was in my element.
Art came as a by-product of this love for nature and a way to express this passion. From childhood, I was sketching my favourite animals, trying to replicate pictures from the numerous field guides I had started to collect. At Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, this hobby was then honed, when I completed a Fine Art degree. Although I focused on photography, I never gave up drawing and sketching. My Photography helped inform my drawing and conceptualise pieces I had in my mind’s eye.
Whilst living and working in London, I have continued to work on my drawing and photography, taking every opportunity I can to get out in the field. Completing field and trails guide qualifications in South Africa in 2015, gave me an even greater appreciation for the natural world, which I now try to incorporate into my work.
I have always been drawn to the nostalgia of monochrome imagery, especially in photography, and feel that informed my approach to my artworks. Although being colour-blind, this also comes in quite handy! That said, the simplicity that this approach allows is something I have always found appealing and is a feature I strive for in my works.
IUCN Red List
Due to high levels of habitat conversion and fragmentation, and illegal killing, Pongo abelii is estimated to have experienced a significant population reduction in recent years. Forest loss data indicate that key Sumatran Orangutan forest habitat (i.e., below 500 m asl) was reduced by 60% of its area between 1985 and 2007 (Wich et al. 2008, 2011). It is thought that this reduction will continue as forests within the species’ range remain under considerable threat (Wich et al. 2016). When relative stability returned to Aceh in 2005 after several years of civil conflict, pressure on natural habitats increased dramatically (Wich et al. 2011). Significant areas of the Orangutan’s range are seriously threatened by logging, mining concessions and agricultural plantations, while new roads are continuously being cut through the habitat. Even in formally protected areas, Orangutans remain under threat from forest conversion to plantations, illegal settlement and encroachment (Wich et al. 2008, 2011, 2016). Furthermore, an illegal spatial land-use plan being implemented by the Government of Aceh Province ignores the Leuser Ecosystem’s status as a ‘National Strategic Area’, designated for its environmental function. Moreover, modelling based on different land-use scenarios and their likely impacts predicts that approximately an additional 4,000 Sumatran Orangutans could be lost by 2030 as a direct consequence of this spatial plan and related developments, and that in 2060 there could be a 81% decline of the population compared to the population in 1985 (Wich et al. 2016, Nowak unpublished data).
Due to their slow life history, with a generation time of at least 25 years (Wich et al. 2004, 2009), Sumatran Orangutan populations are unable to sustain substantial and continual loss of individuals. If the rate of decline observed since 1985 and predicted continues unabated, the population decline will exceed 80% over a three-generation period (i.e., 75 years from 1985 to 2060), hence qualifying Pongo abelii as Critically Endangered under criterion A4.
SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST
