BOYCOTT CRUELTY - GO VEGAN

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will always be battlefields - Leo Tolstoy
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian - Sir Paul McCartney

AHIMSA is a symbolic painting featuring Australia's cruel live export trade. AHIMSA is a Sanskrit word which means total abstinence from causing any pain or harm to any living creature. The painting AHIMSA is being used for public awareness and media. She has already been involved in a peaceful action outside the Castlemaine Gallery as well as Steve Gibbon's MP's office, Bendigo. She travelled to Castlemaine to help the children with their drawing skills. She plans a peaceful action on the steps of Parliament House, Melbourne among other things. If the export trade does not end, the weight of her sadness will be such that she will go into retreat and another figure will take her place, this time dressed fully in black.

AHIMSA Oil on canvas - 7' x 4' - 213.36 cm x 121.92 cm.
The painting explained: "Small portraits of animals that suffer from the Live Animal Export Trade surround the figure in the painting, who is wearing a black armband. Loose strings symbolise the Government's yet to be clarified decision on the matter. Above the central figure is a portrayal of the statue of 'Grief' based on the Adams Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington DC. The outstretched arms are a symbol of the humane chain against Live Animal Export." [Nancy Whittaker, Tarrangower Times]

Information about the Australian live exports trade can be found on the WSPA and Animals Australia banners links below.