Pamela Mei-Leng See / Animals as Allegory

February 2006 - Machine 1.4 - Victoria Bladen

Posted: 28 February 2006 -

Pamela Mei-Leng See -

Several artists explore issues of consumption and human impact on animal environments. Marion Drew's work presents disturbing juxtapositions of food with animals killed on the roads. The consequences of human actions via introduced species also confront us in Pamela Mei-Leng See's 'Inside every toad' (2005) which succinctly conveys a quiet horror in the cut lines of the cane toad having devoured a native frog.

The potential for animal imagery to be read allegorically is present in many of the works.