In 'The Post Modern Animal' by Steve Baker, he describes how '...animal sceptical art is not sceptical of the animal, but of culture's
means of constructing and classifying the animal in order to make it meaningful to the human'.

Show Cats - paintings of winning cats from cat shows. OIl, gold leaf,glitter on canvas.

super cat	best of variety	untitled	supreme u.k. grand premier yankidoodle fairy dust

Consumer Society Fauna - oil and gold leaf on card; rosettes

John Berger in his essay 'Why Look At Animals?', describes the practice of keeping pets as a 'modern innovation...part of that
universal but personal withdrawal into the private small family unit...which is such a distinguishing feature of consumer societies.
Pets are creatures of their owner's way of life..The pet completes him (the owner) offering responses to aspects of his character
which would otherwise remain unconfirmed'.

consumer society fauna	consumer society fauna	consumer sociey fauna - detail

Hybrid Big Cats - oil on canvas.

Most hybrid animals result in human intervention, or the unnatural environment produced by captivity.It has no conservation merits,
as these animals never existed in the wild any way.Most Hybrid animals are infertile, nature's way of preventing cross breeding.

Various hybridisations amongst cats occurred back in the days when zoos wanted oddities to attract the public. These date back to
the 1800s, when zoos were more profit ran than conservation.

leopon oil on canvas	leopon - detail	liger oil on canvas