Flying by instruments

Chris Austin’s “Wake From Your Sleep” at Beinart Gallery.

Currently on view online at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is artist Chris Austin’s spectacular solo exhibition, “Wake From Your Sleep.”

Austin’s paintings intentionally feature wildlife living quite out of their usual habitat: a pod of whales flying through the sky, a shark ponderously making its way over a wooded highway. He enjoys creating contrasts, images that question and entertain the notion of connectivity. By presenting wildlife in scenes that oppose the expected, he creates environments in which nature becomes unnatural.

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Relief plaque of cobra on a neb basket 

Period:Late Period–Ptolemaic Period