We are so blessed with the abun­dance of beau­ti­ful birds in Cen­tral Aus­tralia, that we tru­ly take them for grant­ed! Two thirds of the species of birds in the world live in Aus­tralia, and some of these are unique to Cen­tral Aus­tralia. Bud­gies and Major Mitchells from the par­rot fam­i­ly alone … We are very lucky though to all be blessed with these beau­ti­ful pink and grey birds that we all know and love so well as com­mon garden…galahs!

I grew up on a horse farm feed­ing out oats, which attract­ed lit­er­al­ly hun­dreds of galahs, so I have grown up with them all around me. I love wildlife art and hope to spread the joy with our com­mu­ni­ty of the fun, colour and move­ment of these incred­i­ble birds who have such huge per­son­al­i­ties and visu­al appeal.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly the sear­ing heat last sum­mer in Alice saw baby birds falling out of the trees all around cen­tral Aus­tralia. If we each take more care of our pre­cious envi­ron­ment we can slow down and hope­ful­ly reverse glob­al warm­ing with it’s dev­as­tat­ing effects to our nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment and wildlife. Our kids will be able to enjoy more abun­dant birdlife that we have in the past. Using solar pow­er to our advan­tage in every way makes sense in Alice Springs to our gor­geous galahs!

This art­work was cre­at­ed as part of the Revi­talise Alice – Street Art Project 2020, which was fund­ed by the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Gov­ern­ment, and facil­i­tat­ed by Red Hot Arts.