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Gnu
'The Leap', a bronze wildlife sculpture of a blue wildebeest aka gnu, is Sally's latest work which was accepted for inclusion in the premier London exhibition held in the Mall Gallery in September 2006 by the Society of Wildlife Artists.
In Africa, it is said of the Wildebeest that it was the last animal created which God cobbled together from bits and pieces left over from other beasts. No one part of the Gnu's body is contiguous with another. There is no natural flow, which makes the sculptor's task hard enough even before it is posed impossibly on one pointed hoof leaping forward into a river bed during its annual migration South in the African spring. A creature of odd appearance and childish habits, the Gnu is subtitled 'the clown of the bushveld' but there is nothing childish about this work depicting the desperate effort of the wild rush southward in massed herds flanked by predators eager to cut out the straggler and ambushed by crocodiles at each hazardous river crossing. |
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