Gina Kalabishis

The Great Circle Paths

Name: The Great Circle Paths
Brand: Flinders Lane Gallery
Price: 1250.00 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock

$1,250.00

2025 – Original

oil on board.

40cm x 30cm framed size 43 x 33cm

Perched in stillness, the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo gazes outward—its dark plumage edged with quiet resilience. Once sustained by banksias, casuarinas and the native flora of Sugar Gum woodlands, this species now relies on the seeds of invasive Aleppo Pines, a noxious weed that thrives where their habitat has been fragmented or lost.

In 'The Great Circle Paths', Gina Kalabishis captures not only the bird’s austere beauty, but the unsettling reality of adaptation under duress. As their ancestral food sources dwindle and forests are cleared or replaced with exotic pines, these birds—so iconic to eastern and southern Australia—are pushed further from balance.

About the Artist

Learn more about Gina Kalabishis

Gina Kalabishis’ practice pays direct homage to the beauty of Australia’s native flora and fauna. Finding inspiration in both her regular walks through the unruly, thick bushland of our national parks, as well as from her everyday encounters with unassuming plants and animals within her local Merri Creek backyard in Melbourne, Kalabishis’ delicate paintings and drawings lovingly replicate the earthy, wondrous textures of nature. Utilising a visual language that mixes still life and landscape techniques with intentionally dreamlike, surreal distortions, her images construct intimate narratives in which the human, emotive experience becomes enmeshed within the beauty of the natural environment.

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