More than 1,400 art works featuring the endangered black-throated finch have been sent to Australian politicians in protest against the Carmichael coalmine in Queensland. The campaign, called the Black Finch Project, was instigated by New Zealand-born artist Charlotte Watson, and is intended to highlight the ‘collective grief’ about the plight of the bird, whose habitat is directly threatened by the mine works. Here, some of the contributing artists and members of the public explain why they contributed
