Dr Carolyn Young presents the results from her Creative Arts Fellowship research on small endangered Australian mammals, focusing on the original plates for John Gould’s Mammals of Australia (London, 1863). Following the presentation, Genevieve Jacobs and Simon Corbell will officially launch Grassland in Transition by Dr Carolyn Young and Dr Sue McIntyre.

Carolyn’s investigations inspired her body of photography and mixed-media artwork, re-imagining the nineteenth century experience of grassland species. It explores the relevance of native mammals to Australian culture—past and present.

Dr Carolyn Young is the 2018 Friends of the National Library Creative Arts Fellow. She has a PhD in photography (ANU) and honours degree in natural resources (UNE). She won the Pat Corrigan Acquisitive Award, Centre for Contemporary Photography (2016).