Jane Bamford

This work is offered to buyers who would like to purchase this work to ‘gift into habitat’ at the Emu Bay little penguin colony on Kangaroo Island. Groups and individual are encouraged to ‘own’ this work together to form a generous group committed to supporting innovative science and design in species support. After exhibition, this ceramic nesting module will be fitted with an ibutton (to measure temperature and humidity) and installed into a colony site and monitored for use in moult and nesting uptake.

I would like to acknowledge my collaborators on this project.

Dr Diane Colombelli-Négrel Négrel, penguin ecologist, lecturer in animal behaviour at Flinders University and principal investigator at BirdLab.

Sarah-Lena Reinhold, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences and the Environment, University of Adelaide.

Kate Welz, President of the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Network.Paul Jennings, Kangaroo Island Landscape Board for assistance with module placement permit.

I am very excited to announce that The Jam Factory is a sponsor of this work.

I see artistic design and development of habitat support as innovative and important creative work. I believe artists are uniquely placed to transform conversations around species extinction and translate this into work. I am interested in research on species extinction and also the notable and significant 'thinning' of species all around the globe and the factors that affect the social understanding of these events. I want to take my work into the gallery space to bring these issues to this community. I am interested in the way this gallery experience can subvert the community into buying work to go directly into habitat support thus promoting philanthropy in this sector.