Australian Marine Conservation Society
‘Fantastical Sharks and Rays’
When the whole world was wanging on about AI, the AMCS used CI - Children’s Imagination - to generate artworks based on scientific descriptions of extremely rare and lesser known sharks and rays.
Ten of Australia’s most renown artists then selected winners to inspire their own masterpieces, all of which were displayed at the Fantastical Sharks and Rays exhibition at the Australia Museum.
Sharks became fantastical, not feared. And the AMCS continued to inspire the next generation of ocean protectors.
AMCS ‘Fantastical Sharks and Rays’ Case Study
‘Fantastical Sharks And Rays’ Award Board
Artist Rosie Deacon’s artwork of the Greenback Stingaree, inspired by the imagination of Arwen Brown, aged 10.
Artist Jennifer Turpin’s seaweed sculpture was inspired by 4-year-old Inara Wilson’s imagined whitefin swellshark
Prominent Australian artist ‘Uncle’ Ken Done’s Fiddler Ray, inspired by the imagination of Leah Dijik, aged 11.
The exhibition has an extended run at the Australia Museum, a cultural institution in the heart of the city.
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