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title: "Albatross and petrel art!  Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature paint in support of the Mouse-Free Marion Project"
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# Albatross and petrel art!  Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature paint in support of the Mouse-Free Marion Project

*![                               ](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Flávia_F._Barreto_watercolour_good_friends_Alexis_Osborne.jpg)  
 “Good Friends”.  Displaying Wandering Albatrosses, watercolour by Flávia F. Barreto; after a photograph by Alexis Osborne*

 For the three months of November 2024 to January 2025 [Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds. The Mouse-Free Marion Project](https://mousefreemarion.org) collaborated with the collective Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature ([ABUN](https://abun4nature.org/)) in a special project entitled “[Conservation Campaign for Marion Island](https://mousefreemarion.org/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-the-mouse-free-marion-project-is-delighted-to-announce-its-collaboration-with-artists-and-biologists-unite-for-nature/)”.  ABUN artists were invited to create and submit artworks that the Mouse-Free Marion Project may use to create awareness and for fund raising.  Their chosen subjects were inspired by photographs of Marion Island’s biota, notably its ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels that are threatened by the island’s introduced House Mice.   A total of 43 artworks was submitted, all viewable [here](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.964126259084730&type=3).  A selected portfolio follows.

 *![Andea Siemt Grey Petrel Ben Dilley](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Andea_Siemt_Grey_Petrel_Ben_Dilley.PNG)  
Grey Petrel and chick, gouache by Andrea Siemt, after a photograph by Ben Dilley*

 *![Joyce Hartmann Sooty Albatross](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Joyce_Hartmann_Sooty_Albatross.jpg)  
Sooty Albatrosses by Joyce Hartmann, after a photograph by Danielle Keys and Stefan Schoombie*

 *![Peter Shearer Drawn and composed Procreate photo by Ben Dilleyjpg](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Peter_Shearer_Drawn_and_composed_Procreate_photo_by_Ben_Dilleyjpg.jpg)  
White-chinned Petrel, digital art by Peter Shearer, after a photograph by Ben Dilley*

 *![Lois Davis Grey headed Albatross Kim Stevens](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Lois_Davis_Grey-headed_Albatross_Kim_Stevens.jpg)  
Grey-headed Albatross by Lois Davis, after a photograph by Kim Stevens*

 **![Di Roberts Party time no rodents invited polychrome pencils hi res](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD/Di_Roberts_Party_time_-_no_rodents_invited_polychrome_pencils_hi_res.jpg)*|   
“Party time - no rodents invited”. Polychrome pencils, by Di Roberts*

 With thanks to the Mouse-Free Marion Project and Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 18 March 2025*