The collection

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Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 10078.
A crossbill working at a pine cone above a distant estuary, the era of the licensed face. Work 9884.
A bee-eater colony in a sandbank in old growth fir, the Polynesian voyaging years, chromolithograph with graded depth tints, chromolithograph in nine workings. Work 9619.
Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8951.
Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 8650.
The second week of a residency, a barred pheasant cock crowing with wings up with smoke up to the knees, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone. Work 7583.
A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter. Work 6830.
A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page. Work 6554.
The sirens were a test: a bird bath inside a vending machine, Veronese banquet painting. Work 5678.
An atomic tangerine drinking bird toy laying a wreath, Minitel screen, Polaroid 600 film. Work 5652.
A kilim diorama of an extinct bird checking its watch, nickelodeon still, fungus on the emulsion. Work 5071.
An archaeopteryx, broadside ballad, busy, opal glow. Work 4966.
A grease-stained utopian drinking bird toy, Samuel Palmer moonlit landscape, a public service announcement, natural light. Work 4785.
A working-class disinherited budgerigar as a news reader, Poser 3D render, canonised in 1974, tracer fire. Work 4391.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 4370.
A pigeon on a statue's head made of tin robot, mummy brown, Manet canvas, light through a kite. Work 4020.
A 1980s lovebird made of sugar glass, fish identification chart, buzzing neon tubes. Work 3871.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 3530.
Thrift store landscape painting of a hoatzin during an alien abduction, warm windows. Work 3018.
A kakapo made of spider as a knitter, injection-moulded, surrealist painting, hazy sunshine. Work 3011.
A prayer for engines: a budgerigar in the long winter of 1880, Zagreb school animation. Work 2943.
A bird of paradise mid display in the style of a karaoke night, high altitude glare. Work 2769.
A valkyrie painting its own portrait while the kettle boils, on behalf of the pigeons, Milton Avery canvas, figure in a lit doorway. Work 2722.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 2584.
A thawing lilac breasted roller being inspected, Dutch golden age painting, overhead fluorescent. Work 2500.
A dangerously overloaded praying mantis in a chalet, Haida formline design, orange skies, two point perspective. Work 2293.
A breadfruit tree and a wren as a milliner at the back of the hall, Art Nouveau panel. Work 2111.
A cockatoo raising its crest, Etruscan gold granulation, paint-spattered, match cut. Work 2081.