Monument Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania - Print

Phil Hayes

Set against a vividly rendered Tasmanian coastline, the thylacine appears as a life-sized monument—both present and impossibly absent. Elevated on a plinth, it reads like a museum relic misplaced in the landscape it once inhabited. The work balances realism with quiet fiction, reflecting on extinction, human intervention, and the unsettling calm of imagining a creature that should no longer exist, yet still lingers in collective memory.

Artist
Phil Hayes
Year
2026
Edition
30
Height
28 cm
Width
17 cm
Medium
Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper