Close to Krieger's heart is the vulnerability of animals and the transient nature of life. Her body of work explores how human activity has affected Australian wildlife today. Through deforestation, fossil fuels and introduced species we are rapidly damaging our eco system.
Beauty and the Macabre displays both the positive and negative changes that have been made through our own doing and undoing. Extinction and climate change are the ugly elements of our intervention, but there's also stories of survival and rejuvenation through programmes to save our endangered species.
Influenced by the movements of the Vanitas and Momento Mori, Krieger chose not to delve too deeply into death and decay but produced a body of work implementing her own arrangements of unstill life. Her paintings display collections of Australian flora and fauna, including the living, extinct and endangered.
The viewer is firstly drawn to the beauty of the work, only to question its inference.
The gesture.
Oil on linen
107 x 122 cm
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Vanishing point
Oil on linen
91 x 122cm
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Pork and apple sauce
Oil on linen
107 x 122cm
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Spring Lamb
Oil on linen
107 x 122cm
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Roadkill
Oil on linen
92 x 122 cm
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Devil of a time
Oil on board.
50cm.
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Ewe
Oil on board
50cm
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Newborn
Oil on board
50cm
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I am Sam
Oil on board
50cm
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Black Saturday
Oil on board
50 x 60cm
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Duck l’orange
Oil on board.
50 x 60cm
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Something old, something blue
Oil on board.
50 x 60cm
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Pink ice
Oil on board.
50 x 60cm
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Dinosauresque
Oil on board.
50 x 60cm
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Silver Princess