Red Rumped Swallow

by Iella (Daniela Attard)

Sydney specific
Pencil on Bristol board

The red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia. They winter in Africa or India and are vagrants to Christmas Island and northern Australia.

This swallow has been juxtaposed with paper boats, in reference to The Child Migrants’ Memorial at Valletta Waterfront (inaugurated in 2008 to commemorate the 310 Maltese children, mostly boys, who traveled to Australia in search of a better life between 1950 and 1965).

• 29.7cm by 42cm paper size, unframed
• 43.7cm by 62cm mounted
• 47cm by 66cm framed
• Pencil on bristol board
• 2021