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does not always go exactly to their plan, they have had to learn over many years where the line is with big, dangerous animals, and be careful they do not cross it. They paint or sketch the animal on the same canvas at the same time. Their goal is to capture as much of the animal as possible. They try to portray the energy of their subject, whether it is frightened or inquisitive or indifferent to these people that have entered its territory. Olly and Suzi always try to get an interaction from their subject, whether it be a bite mark, lick, footprint, slither, or occasionally ruining the work completely. "One rhino ate the whole thing" Olly told
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been amendments to this law over time, but the Lacey Act still exists today. Animal art has changed drastically since the eighteenth century, when it primarily focused on the animal in its relation to humans. Most western art showing animals, created in the eighteenth century was of stock in a field, horses alongside men, and occasional depictions of exotic animals such as giraffes or tigers. Contemporary art by artists such as Olly and Suzi has turned this narrative around, giving the animals more depth and personality.
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the painting, they covered it in fish entrails in order to entice the shark and threw it back into the water. The shark came up and bit a chunk out of the painting, taking Olly and Suzi's signatures with it. Once it realised that the painting was not a fish, the shark spat the painting back out and swam away. Olly and Suzi were left with a painting that had been bitten in half, a spectacular photo taken by Olly's brother
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and last year we started a new body of work focusing solely on the landscape". In 2016 Olly and Suzi started on their work painting the landscapes of
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Olly and Suzi's most famous work is a painting of a great white shark that was bitten in half when they offered it to the shark to get an interaction. This artwork was created by Olly and Suzi pushing the paint into the paper with their hands while they were underwater. After they were finished with
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were very successful in their interactions, for example a drawing of an elephant which was complimented with a footprint as the elephant came to have a look at the drawing. Some of the drawings were torn up by their subjects and dragged away into the bush. These interactions make each of Olly and
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