FIELD NOTES: ALPINE DINGO

I’ve spent years working with dingoes, both behind the camera and in research.

For nearly a decade I’ve been filming them in the Australian high country, including for David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. Alongside that, I’ve studied their natural history and the role they play in the systems they’re part of.

They are top predators and keystone species. Integral to Australia’s ecosystems. Where they persist, you tend to see it in small ways. Fewer foxes. More diverse native mammal communities. Even changes in vegetation over time.

This white dingo is lighter in colour than most people expect, but it’s still a pure dingo. Coat colour varies more than people realise, especially through the alpine regions.

Remove them, and things change.

Most of what they do happens out of sight. Short pursuits. More failed hunts than successful ones. They rely on timing, terrain, and small windows where things line up.

In the alpine, it feels quieter. More exposed. You notice them differently up there. Moving along ridgelines, then gone again.

This plate is a dedication to alpine dingoes, particularly those in Namadgi National Park in the ACT.

I’ve spent years filming them up there.

You rarely see them for long.

But you know when they’ve been there.

DESCRIPTION

Field Editions is a collaboration between artist and Daniel, producing limited works drawn from long observation in wild places.

Each edition begins in the field. Encounters, notes, sketches, photos and video, distilled into a finished plate.

Printed in small numbers using archival materials. 

The works draw from the tradition of natural history plates, interpreted through a contemporary hand, with a quiet acknowledgement of the deeper cultural histories of the landscapes and animals depicted.

Not posters, but records. Objects that sit somewhere between artwork and field note.

CONSERVATION

10% of proceeds from this edition support the Bush Heritage.