Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print

Bill Hammond (born 1947) studied art in Christchurch in the 1960s. He became a full-time painter in 1981. In 1989 Hammond’s work changed radically after a trip to the subantarctic Auckland Islands, where he encountered what he described as ‘a paradise for birds’. He learned about the nineteenth-century trade in native birds that had decimated so many species. In his new paintings, hybrid bird-human figures became a metaphor for all threatened creatures. Please note that processing time for Museum Collection Prints/Mātātuhi mai i kohinga o Te Papa is 5 to 10 business days.

Reproduction prints are as close as possible to the paper sizes available without compromising the aspect ratios of the original artworks.

Print size: 1100 x 1100mm including a 8mm border

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