Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print - wholesale Science and Nature Robin White’s hard-edged paintings of

Robin White’s hard-edged paintings of rural New Zealand and its people are comparable with Don Binney‘s and Michael Smither’s work

urban bird communities

which drew on the landscape of Muriwai

couched in the most direct language

and critic whose contribution to art in New Zealand is immense

Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print - wholesale Science and Nature Robin White’s hard-edged paintings ofBill Hammond (born 1947) studied art in Christchurch in the 1960s. He became a full time painter in 1981. In 1989 Hammonds 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.