Tīeke at Dawn letterpress 22cm x 37cm (paper size)

22cm x 37cm (paper size)

Words from Val Fitzgerald:

He worked alongside Anna Wilkinson in the studio teaching workshops

This precariousness was an unnerving realisation

Tīeke at Dawn letterpress 22cm x 37cm (paper size)The print was developed from a sketch of a North Island Saddleback in Zealandia, Wellington. Teke, or Saddleback (there are both North Island and South Island species that in adult form are very similar) were once widespread in both mainland islands of New Zealand, however began to decline upon deforestation and the spread of introduced predators (rats, cats and stoats), owing to their habit of nesting low and their fledgelings being active on the