Linocut Print on paper

Signed and numbered on the front.

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia’s most well-known native mammals. Echidnas are usually solitary, but in early spring, ‘echidna trains’ composed of a single female trailed by one to ten males, can be seen for several weeks. At Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary, a protected area in the north of Canberra, an annual ‘echidna sweep’ forms a community event that monitors the population in the absence of predators like foxes, which elsewhere predate heavily on newborn ‘puggles’.
This is a one-of-a-kind unique print (hence U/P on the title of the work) that uses several printing techniques to create a multi-layered piece of art.