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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.

The Great Hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) is a large (to 610 cm total length) coastal and semi-oceanic pelagic shark, wide-ranging in tropical and warm temperate seas to depths of 300 m. It is caught globally as target and bycatch in coastal and pelagic large- and small-scale longline, purse seine, and gillnet fisheries, and is often retained for the fins. It has a long lifespan of up to 44 years and only breeds once every two years, which combined with high bycatch mortality, makes it susceptible to depletion where it is taken in unmanaged fisheries. The Great Hammerhead appears to have undergone steep declines in the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and in the Atlantic prior to management measures, where slow recovery may now be occurring in the Northwest Atlantic. The global population is estimated to have undergone reductions of 50.9–62.4%, with the highest probability of >80% reduction over three generation lengths (71.1–74.4 years). There is a lack of data from the Pacific, limited regional representation of some time-series, intensive fisheries in data-poor regions that are suspected to have driven significant declines, and uncertainty about levels of exploitation that are potentially similar to those of the Scalloped Hammerhead (S. lewini) (which has been assessed as globally Critically Endangered). Expert judgement elicitation thus used a precautionary approach and concurred with the highest probability of reduction of >80% over three generation lengths (71.1–74.4 years). The Great Hammerhead is therefore assessed as Critically Endangered A2bd. SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST

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