#bushfires
It’s a very sad time in Australia right now. Bushfires are devastating the country. I wanted to draw something to get the word out and list some ways we can help.
Donations can be made to the following organisations:
- NSW Rural Fire Service
- VIC Country Fire Authority
- The Red Cross Australia
- The Salvation Army Australia
- WIRES Wildlife Rescue
- WWF Australia
- Port Macquarie Koala Hospital
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Australia’s Bushfire Aftermath
Australia’s east-coast bushfires of 2019-2020 have been extinguished for some time now, but the rafts of charred debris continue to linger on our beaches, leaving a permanent record of the events of last summer.
Such records, when successfully preserved in sedimentary environments, is what scientists study to better understand what fire regimes were like in the past, so we have better idea what is to come.
Warrain Beach, Australia
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an illustration i did a while back for the australian fires, it was so saddening seeing people crying that they’re leaving behind everything & how their skies were red with soot everywhere
Today was smoky! Everyone and their dog seems to be doing burn offs right now, and there’s no wind, so there’s a fog of smoke over the city and it’s not doing my nerves much good.
<Brain> There’s smoke! Something is on fire. Firefirefire go find the fire D:
<Me> It’s burn offs. Calm down.
<Brain> Fire! o.o
Urgh. Just aussie autumn things.
Cementa22 is just around the corner and the emergency blankets are nearly ready. Here are some detail shots of each blanket and one detail shot of the mylar backing.
I will be exhibiting these blankets and performing live at Combamalong Studios as part of my Emergency Blankets project for Carnivale Catastrophe @carnivale_catastrophe, presented by Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains @modernartprojects at Cementa22 @cementafestival 19-22 May, 2022.
Carnivale Catastrophe is proudly assisted by the Australian Government @ausgov through the Festivals Australia program, Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal @frrr_aus, and NAB Foundation @nab. Emergency Blankets is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW @creatensw.
Curator: Fiona Davies
Exhibition Manager: Lizzy Marshall
Invited Artists: Fiona Davies, Rhonda Dee, Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Tom Isaacs, Kenneth Lambert, Sean O’Keeffe, Ebony Secombe.
@fionahilarydavies@lizzy.marshall.779@kenneth_lambert_artist@beatageyer@annegrahamart@tom_isaacs_art@rhonda_dee_artist@secombe_works_it@seanokeeffe00
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Earth science, James Cook University
Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australian Savannas during the Holocene
THIS!! #gowithemptyeskies
The Search for Life on Kangaroo Island
THE GREAT KOALA RESCUE OPERATION
While the bushfires all over Australia were horrific, burning more than 16 million acres—nearly eight times the area lost to fire in Brazil’s Amazon basin in 2019—people around the world focused on Kangaroo Island because of the relative scale of the fires, which consumed close to half the island, as well as the concentrated death and suffering of the island’s abundant wildlife, including wallabies, kangaroos, possums and koalas.
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It’s snowing in Australia but it isn’t frozen water it’s snowing- It’s ash from the 401 fires burning our country down.
Our Prime Ministers initial response to climate change? “I send my thoughts and prayers” and then he buggered off for a holiday in Hawaii. Two volunteer firefighters are among the many ash o have DIED from these fires now. A whole species (the koala) has been labelled as functionally extinct because of them, people are bow homeless, towns and states are B U R N I N G.
The closest fire to Melbourne City, Victoria, where I live, is covered in more and more smoke every hour, even though the closest fire is over AN HOUR out of the city.
We are literally burning.
Sorry for the unrelated post but this is how we are doing right now, this is what Australia is going through.
Australia is burning.
