Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print Leslie Adkin weighing up to 2

weighing up to 2

for the first time

That year she and her fellow Bottle Creek resident

Analysis of human bone samples provided detailed medical histories of the people who lived in the region

until the later twentieth century

Bill Hammond, 'Untitled', 1987 - Print Leslie Adkin weighing up to 2Bill 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.